Articles by BoingBoing from November 2015

This $10,000 coffin sofa was created by Etsy goth outfitter Von Erikson: it's available with purple, red or black upholstery. (via Marxist Barbie)...

When an American tries to kill another American in the name of Islam, it's terrorism. When white Christians -- the most common religious killers in America by a long chalk -- open fire on a black chur...

Wole Talabi, a Nigerian sf writer who lives in Malaysia, has rounded up his ten favorite African science fiction and fantasy stories of 2015. Like Africa, the stories are wildly varied, each as differ...

Ned Richardson-Little is a Canadian academic who went to the US "in search of a better life," did research in Germany and settled in the UK, something he was able to do thanks to his economic migrant ...

Those bowtie-shaped "motorized self-balancing two-wheeled scooters" you see in the windows of strip-mall cellphone repair shops and in mall-kiosks roared out of nowhere and are now everywhere, despite...

The stubborn unwillingness of millennials to buy cars and houses and save for pensions may reflect a shifting consciousness about material culture, but can also be attributed to the undeniable fact th...

The Better Shelter is a flat-pack refugee shelter that costs three times more than the traditional tent, but lasts up to 40 times longer. It was developed with a grant from the Ikea foundation. (more&...

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This minimalist multi-tool will see to it that instead of rocking a tool belt, youll carry just one. Its shaped slightly like a key and weighs less than an ounce, so it plays nice with your keychain. ...

The Code Black is our top-selling drone of all timeand for good reason. This powerful, palm-size drone is not only insanely fun to fly, but can capture some serious video footage from up above. With a...

Not known for making the most exciting motorcycles, BMW has triumphed over a lawsuit claiming one of their bikes left a man with a 2 day long erection. This via the Marin Independent Journal:Wolf clai...

Dont get handcuffed by Apples standard 3-foot Lightning cord (that youve most likely already lost), treat yourself to 10 feet of luxurious charging convenience. The Colossal is certified by Apple for ...

At least five police officers have been shot, and an untold number of other people have been injured, in what is reported at the time of this blog post as an a very active shooter situation either at ...

Vtech is a ubiquitous Hong Kong-based electronic toy company whose kiddy tablets and other devices are designed to work with its cloud service, which requires parents to set up accounts for their kids...

If you're a woman on the Internet, harassment comes with the territory. There have been jerky dudes since time immemorial, after all. But with the advent of America's militarized cops, sociopathic mis...

At least 3 law enforcement officers and multiple civilians were injured in what is reported at the time of this blog post as an ongoing active shooter situation at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Spr...

You’ve likely wondered if the internet is having a negative effect on your brain. Perhaps you’ve thought this after realizing the world wide web now serves as a trusty resource when gaps i...

Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky roast the Red Pill men's rights movement in a scathing, scintillating, rhyming Dr Seuss parody that features such gems as: "Theyre in the friendzone!/What a pity/Stuck ...

The new Raspberry Pi Zero is a $5 general purpose computer, manufactured in Wales, with more power than a 1980s personal computer. (more…)...

You know that successful person's lament about being out of control of their own time, not being able to balance the demands that others placed on them against their own self-care needs? There is noth...

https://youtu.be/JhuYzIQ1ZosIn China, a cable got snarled in the rotating broom of a street sweeper. A reddit user who understands Mandarin explained what happened in more detail:A telephone pole was ...

https://youtu.be/myhYNsRXYgsJohannes Hansen says: "Fooling around at the office yesterday my colleague Sren noticed this funny sound from the can."...

https://youtu.be/2a1QISYNGHsLueb Popoff is a tree carver from Boulder, Colorado. In this video he takes a chainsaw to a tree stump and turns it into a wood sculpture with 3 raccoons and a fox....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Hand lettering stands out because everyone has access to computer layout applications now. The warmth and quirky character of hand lettering has great appeal, a...

Gus the dog tries to comprehend a Thanksgiving toy, and gives up. (more…)...

Ecco the Dolphin was undoubtedly one of the trippiest games to emerge from the early '90s, a psychedelic ocean adventure about Atlantis, time machines and giant crystals whose gameplay was once turned...

Ecco the Dolphin was undoubtedly one of the trippiest games to emerge from the early '90s, a psychedelic ocean adventure about Atlantis, time machines and giant crystals whose gameplay was once turned...

/ GIFT GUIDE /all / mark / cory / david / xeni / rob / jasonIt's that time of year again! Welcome to Boing Boing's 2015 Gift Guide, where you'll find toys, books, gadgets and many other splendid idea...

A special holiday thank you to our long time sponsor Shanalogic! Shanalogic is a curated shop of handmade and independently produced gifts, many of which we own and love! Check out this fantastic Sola...

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When you look at the Thanksgiving story from Squanto's point of view, it's a pretty depressing science fiction story about minding your business outside your home one day when you're suddenly abducted...

From the late 1800s to the early 1940s, many Americans celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as "ragamuffins" in masked costumes and then thronged the streets, basically trick-or-treating for money a...

Leo spent 1,000 hours making these 17kg robotic cosplay wings, modeled on Kayle from League of Legends. (more…)...

BMG Rights Management and Round Hill Music. has been trying to enlist Cox Cable as an accomplice in a copyright trolling scheme, demanding that the company pass on copyright infringement notices that ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSFf0Lz1qcHardware hacker/security researcher Samy Kamkar is legendary for his legion of playful, ha-ha-only-serious gadgets that show how terrible information secur...

The Teddytaur is an actual, $400 product, made from alpaca-wool, sold by high-end toymaker Steiff in its Japanese store. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

When Zoe Stavri woke up with a yeast infection, she had a strange and intriguing idea: what about adding some of her vaginal candida to sourdough starter? (more…)...

In 2014, Britain strode boldly into the late 20th century, finally legalising "private copying" -- ripping CDs, taping LPs, recording TV shows, backing up your ebooks and games -- but now it's thought...

The Snoopers Charter is the UK Tory government's proposal to force ISPs to retain records of all their customers' online activities, and the government has used the excuse of the Paris attacks to call...

Uncle Bill, please lead us in A Thanksgiving Prayer....

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I have to admit - when I first saw the Swagway, I thought Id never get on it. The very idea of finding balance on an electric skateboard seemedtoo difficult and I was certain Id feel like a goofball.T...

Matthew Borgatti, purveyor of such Boing Boing favorites as the Guy Fawkes Bandanna, the War Boy Bandanna, and the Lockpick Earrings, offers you your choice of his wares at at 20% discount, with the c...

Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund douche-bro who hiked the price of an off-patent drug used by AIDS and cancer patients from $13.50 to $750, then promised to lower the prices after becoming the Most Hate...

The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle writes, "We founded a credit union to build a new path after the banking debacle of 2008 and it's been crushed by federal regulators. The regulators close 200-3...

Nick Sousanis, who delivered his doctoral dissertation in comic book form, has a new comic in the current Nature magazine, explaining the last 25 years' worth of climate talks, as a primer in advance ...

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Disasterpeace's wonderful soundtrack for Polytron's seminal game Fez has just been released on mouth-watering, lucent pollen-colored vinyl sheathed in a gold-embossed gatefold jacket. It looks as beau...

These knitted gloves are here to save the day (and your hands) with an ultra-comfy, double-layer that will allow you to stay warm and use your phone. Now you can take photos on the fly, text, Tinder, ...

They're calling Jasbir Singh Bharaj the "Worst ever" air rage passenger. He was given 11 months in prison for his drunken tantrum on a flight from Dubai to Birmingham, UK.The judge who handed down the...

There's still time to run down to the supermarket and buy this cake for the coprophages joining you for Thanksgiving dinner.Check out more unusual Thanksgiving treats in the gallery here....

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer th...

Once upon a time, clock towers were a sort of public utility, a shared temporal reference point that synchronized communities where personal timepieces were often a rarity. Although we hardly need the...

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This organic cold-pressed, unrefined coconut oil is less than half the price of Trader Joe's coconut oil (and probably one third the price of coconut oil sold at Whole Foods). I have a subscribe-and-s...

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Apparently Ive had crummy doorbells for the past 45 years and didnt even know it. It took visiting a good friends home to find out what I was missing. When I got there, I was greeted by what looked li...

I use a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet, but don't want to. Because I'm used to the quality of this product, though, I can't even use the toys that pass as art styluses for iOS an Android tablets. I'...

The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE was the company's latest answer to Apple's dominating entry into the market. But it died fast, pulled off the shelves within a week due to an unspecified problem wi...

Store more on your Mac without making a scene thanks to this microSD memory card adapter. Compatible with MicroSD, MicroSDHC, and MicroSDXC, HyperDrive sits unnoticeably inside your machine without an...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, sig...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, sig...

Motherboard's Jason Koebler follows Kyle Wiens around the Electronics Reuse Conference -- Burning Man for the service-people who fix your phones, laptops, and other devices -- in New Orleans. Wiens is...

Well, this is wonderful—Jason Scott, creator of the GET LAMP documentary and tireless historian in the service of games, is releasing a huge trove of scans from the archives of Infocom veteran S...

Sgt Crispy writes, "XKCD creator Randall Munroe, has made a spiffy little hoverboard game. Looks to be small, however, when you realize that boundaries are made to be broken, A massive world opens up ...

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, one of the central characters is Lennie, a man with some form of mental development disability who enjoys petting mice and puppies. Only he enjoys it so much he c...

They're $4 from Stickermule -- a great way to show your Glorkian pride....

A kerfuffle about a Canadian university where yoga classes were cancelled after concerns about cultural appropriation were raised by the Centre for Students with Disabilities sparked Michelle Goldberg...

A leaked recording made of a conference call posted by the Edison Electric Institute, which lobbies for the power industry, reveals lobbyists for high pollution companies talking about how they can ex...

Yesterday, Dell was advising customers not to try to uninstall the bogus root certificate it had snuck onto their Windows machine, which would allow attackers to undetectably impersonate their work in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTThblbbnkMA long time ago, Veronica Belmont was featured in a blooper reel for her old TV show in which she clowned around with a Cthulhu t-shirt, wiggling back and ...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "From Boy Scouts to movie stars, no one was safe from J. Edgar Hoover's all-watching surveillance apparatus at the FBI -- or his sharp tongue. MuckRock has put together a...

Most folks use paper,Some use their hand,Outdoors they use leaves,In the desert they use sand.But what about fruit? You've never wiped your keister with a kiwi?They make every thing for every purpose ...

The Guardian has a video report on the Sweden Democrats, the third largest party in the country, which runs on a platform of blatant racism, anti-immigration, and nationalism....

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Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors that look a lot like a Wes Anderson film set....

https://youtu.be/cHbYk2l9w-EDesigner Milan R. Vuckovic produced this video time-lapse of terrorist attacks around the world over the last 15 years. Only attacks with 20 or more fatalities were include...

https://youtu.be/OgBHRokBoHAThe video has a terrific crack of thunder. There's no information about where this happened.[via]...

https://youtu.be/-wV_58DHkLMAfter watching this video, I realize I've never eaten a yam. According to the President of the Sweet Potato Council, yams in the United States are only found in "specialty ...

About a year ago my family started replacing plastic leftover containers with pyrex containers and we have been really happy with them. The best part about using them is popping them into microwave, l...

About a year ago my family started replacing plastic leftover containers with pyrex containers and we have been really happy with them. (more…)...

One of the few major psychedelics conferences during the dark age of the Just Say No Reagan regime was the Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference (aka Psychedelic Conference II), held on the campus ...

See more photos at Wink Fun.In Arcadia Quest, the mighty city of Arcadia has fallen to a foul vampire lord, Lord Fang, and his army of orcs, goblins and other monsters. They control the entire city, b...

This video appears to be a freighter's anchor being lost as it is dropped. The situation just gets worse and worse as the chain's momentum increases and whatever braking mechanisms exist fail. Soon,...

Remember back in the heady days of the mid-1990s, when playing computer games felt like running around in a endless maze of cardboard walls? Relive it today in Payroll, a game that simulates both the ...

Five protestors were shot Monday while protesting the recent shooting death of a black man. Police are looking for three white suspects. The victims' injuries are reportedly not life-threatening.Tonig...

The barb in trade agreements' tail is the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, which lets companies sue governments to repeal rules that interfere with their profitability. It's let tobac...

Pfizer's used a tax-dodge called a "reverse-inversion" to sell itself to a much smaller, Irish pharma company, moving its corporate nationality to Ireland at the stroke of a pen. (more…)...

Smell of Books is an amusing selection of imaginary fragrances for bilibiophiles, with names such as "classic musty" and "eau you have cats.""Have you been avoiding e-books because they just dont smel...

Carrying this EDC card is like slinging around a handheld toolbox wherever you go. Its minimal design is small enough to fit in your wallets billfold, and its TSA-compliant so youll never leave it beh...

I've been using Stanley's classic flask for years (I literally packed one, full of nice bourbon, in my suitcase this morning for the Melbourne/Sydney/Berlin trip I'm leaving on tonight), and I have no...

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If you like the idea of stamping approved and rejected stamps on animals' helpless faces, Animal Inspector is the game for you. In a world where pets are taking up too much space, or have turned bad, ...

An older homeless man and his black and white border collie have been calling a street corner near my home their home for the past few months. Today I decided I wanted to give away a doggie bed that w...

The Jungle Cruise at Disneyland in California was an opening day attraction in 1955. Walt Disneys desire to bring the mystique of faraway lands to what were once orange groves in Anaheim, combined wit...

https://youtu.be/V9iurC49t6cMy friend Tom Fassbender took a year off to go on a round-the-world trip with his family. He wrote a bunch of excellent dispatches for Boing Boing, which you can read here....

Tattoo artist Clae Welch gives Casey Lubin eleven tattoos, in the styles of representative American tattoo artists from each decade in the last century. (WatchCut Video)...

p>This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us interviews with the developers behind Cibele and Uriel's Chasm, as well as a meditation on games that aren't meant to be played. (more&hel...

What if you could learn how to play chess simply by looking at the pieces? That's one of the ideas behind Orthogonal/Diagonal, an exhibition where artist Nova Jiang has reimagined chess with 3D-printe...

Mattel's Hello Barbie has a microphone and a wifi interface, and it transmits the phrases it hears to a central server in order to parse them and formulate a response. Mattel claims that the data isn'...

US police seized $4.5 billion through civil asset forfeiture (through which police can take money and valuables away from citizens without charging anyone with any crimes) in 2014; in the same period,...

US police seized $4.5 billion through civil asset forfeiture (through which police can take money and valuables away from citizens without charging anyone with any crimes) in 2014; in the same period,...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "While J. Edgar Hoover wasn't a big fan of much media in the 60s -- he worked to rewrite one of Hitchcock's scripts and made Walt Disney re-work Tomorrowland -- there was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybxhvlyw-X0Matt Reimer's homebrew autonomous tractor uses open source components to accomplish the kind of automation that John Deere's super-proprietary tractors are...

A mother who enrolled her kids in a musical theater program was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that gay people have infiltrated the world of performing arts. Who would have guessed? The moth...

Earlier today the Moscow City Court ordered the local Church of Scientology to set up a commission to liquidate in six months. According to AP, Russia's Justice Ministry successfully argued that the t...

Last February, Lenovo shocked its security-conscious customers by pre-installing its own, self-signed root certificates on the machines it sold. These certificates, provided by a spyware advertising c...

Thirteen people were hospitalized on Sunday after they were found vomiting, convulsing, and behaving oddly in downtown San Diego, California. According to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, they ha...

Army Col. John Hope blew the whistle on a task force that spent $43 million to build a useless gas station in Afghanistan. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction says the useless...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.In 1964, Italian photographer Emilio Lari was 24, newly arrived in London and looking for work. Back in Rome, hed shot promotional stills on the set of Yesterda...

Today only take an additional 15% off the below drones today using coupon code: DRONE15 at checkoutThe Code Black is our top-selling drone of all timeand for good reason. This powerful, palm-size dron...

If I could walk, I wouldnt have missed my connection. If I could walk, I wouldnt have been left onboard, twice, after everyone else disembarked. If I could walk, I wouldnt have my feet crushed, dragge...

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Youll have tons of fun playing this well-balanced board game even if you never win - and I should know.Getting my wife to play games with me is a bit like pulling teeth. To increase my odds of making ...

Enjoy the original IBM 5150 PC as implemented in javascript, with various boot images to toy around with. It was added to the JavaScript Machines project in Fall 2012, and is now part of the PCjs Proj...

Lucas Etter, 14, broke the 5 second barrier with this 4.9s completion of Rubik's Cube. [via]"Oh my god! Oh my god!"...

The Slo Mo Guys set fire to a bucket of fuel surrounded by box fans, then filmed the resulting column of fire. It's really somethinga beautiful and scary thing that's understandably hard to capture ...

Lisa Rein writes, "Fresh from a Supreme Court victory in a marijuana case, and armed with a campaign song written by John Lennon, maverick psychologist and prominent LSD researcher Timothy Leary decid...

Self-experimenters, inspired by a 2011 presentation by The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide author James Fadiman, are taking tiny "sub-perceptual" doses of LSD and psilocybin to encourage workplace creati...

Perfect for all your underwater stealth-drilling needs, the Nemo Power Tools SPECIAL OPS is submersible to 100 meters, has an 18v lithium battery, and is all-black for maximum concealment.Its 1000-wat...

Todd W. Schneider analyzed 1.1 Billion NYC taxi and Uber trips "with a Vengeance", teasing straightfoward visualizations from an absolutely enormous dataset.Taken as a whole, the detailed trip-level d...

The amazing animated video to The Jezabels' "Come Alive" features a swirly, timeless impasto style. All smoke and fire and light, every frame's literally a stark, beautiful painting.It was directed ...

Once again, Jen Wang (my co-creator on In Real Life and author of the amazing Koko Be Good) is convening a don't-miss "convention of independent comics artists," Dec 5/6, at the Think Tank Gallery, wi...

Robbo sez, "Outaspaceman on YouTube shows his latest project - an Arduino-based knife wielding tentacle - which, of course, no home should be without."...

Munroe's upcoming book, Thing Explainer, occasioned an interview in Time; in characteristically wonderful style, he answered all the questions with one-panel cartoons. (via /.)...

Why interrupt your post-Thanksgiving turkey bliss to wait in an epic line, when the best deal of the season is a click away? We're treating you Mac enthusiasts to the ultimate Black Friday bundle, pac...

The Hilton College of the University of Houston's Hospitality Industry Archives includes a wonderful selection of menus from the 1850s and 1860s. (more…)...

Rebecca Solnit is a brilliant writer whose essay Men Explain Things to Me sparked the discourse about "mansplaining" and whose 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell is one of the best history books I've ...

Seemingly harmless browser extensions that generate emojis, enlarge thumbnails, help you debug Javascript errors and other common utilities routinely run secret background processes that collect and r...

It's been five years since the first cases of UK undercover police officers infiltrating environmental groups and tricking activists into having sex with them surfaced, and now, one of the survivors o...

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Judith (AKA Miss Mantis) remakes kitschy-sweet porcelain figurines, transforming them with polymer clay, flocking and paint into statuettes of anthropomorphic insects going about their weird, daily bu...

The Right Way To Do Wrong presents a unique opportunity to experience Harry Houdini in his own words. A collection of the master magician's interviews of police, grifters, swindlers, and criminals of ...

Excel skills aren't just good to have, they're essential to your career success. Start from the basics and advance your skills through these dual expert-taught courses. You'll be fully prepped to earn...

After bigots alerted Southwest Airlines ground crew that there were two people speaking Arabic in the boarding area, the airline's employees opted to harass a Palestinian-American pizza-parlor owner a...

While looking for a new wheel for our hamster, my wife spotted this cat exercise wheel, which began life (where else) on Kickstarter and is now an object in the stream of commerce. (more…)...

There's nothing like an Alex Schomburg Golden Age comic book cover. Feast your eyes on Sub-Mariner #12, Winter 1943. I'm not a WWII historian, but I don't recall the Germans having pink helmets, pink ...

Ive always loved writing about space and aviation, but I never thought Id be writing about the horrific experience I had with American Airlines. If you're asking, Whats newsworthy about someone having...

Here are a few samples from one of the better cats-that-look-like-pinup-model websites out there....

Paintings by incarcerated Native activist Leonard Peltier has been removed from the walls of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Tumwater following complaints form a group of re...

Paintings by incarcerated Native activist Leonard Peltier have been removed from the walls of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Tumwater following complaints form a group of r...

Standard & Poors, Gallup, the World Bank, and George Washington University gave a five-question test on personal financial concepts to 150,000 people in more than 140 countries. Only 33% of people pas...

There are dozens upon dozens of subgenres across the genres of popular fiction (Romance, Crime, and Science Fiction/Fantasy, plus some others). Science Fiction gets sliced up into Space Opera, Mundane...

The company says it's not policy to do this -- yet -- but they're testing locking Yahoo Mail users out of their accounts unless they turn off ad-blocking. (more…)...

Movie stars, pro athletes, and rich people will no longer have to suffer the company of their lessers at Los Angeles international airport. For about $1,500 to $1,800 the elite will be dropped off beh...

This is Gordonville, Pennsylvania resident Leroy Stolzfus, 22, who recently finished the Harrisburg Marathon in three hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds, close to what it would take for him to qualify fo...

Bats and skateboarders have something special in common. They both use inertia to land their tricks which, in a bat's case, means landing upside down. (more…)...

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My father took me to see Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the old Madison Square Garden in the early 1960s. What a wondrous day! First the smell of the cotton candy and peanuts embrace ...

The people behind Brooklyn's brilliant science fiction bookstore Singularity & Co are looking to raise $60,000 to launch a new science fiction quarterly magazine called the Tycho Journal. (more&hellip...

Jahfurry writes, "Ben McCool over at Tech Times unearthed five brilliantly bonkers Star Wars comics written by Alan Moore in the '80s. What a treat to read the Magus's take on Darth Vader, Han, Chewie...

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion sports a hall of changing paintings in which people and scenes are transformed into sinister versions of themselves. Though these have gained in technical sophistication o...

In the wake of the Paris attacks, the French National Assembly has declared a state of emergency with sweeping powers, without any substantial debate. Included in the bill are the power to order the ...

Back in 2004, when designer David Albertson and I were creating a prototype for the magazine that would become MAKE, one the things we came up with was an item called 1+2+3. It was a one-pager with in...

Genetic Cars is a transfixing simulation of procedurally-generated vehicles attempting to traverse rough terrain. Each round comprises genetic variations of the previous round's most successful car.Yo...

I watched the Bob Ross marathon on Twitch recently, where a whole new generation got to discover the magic that emerges from his brushes: how you can turn away for a moment and turn back to find a who...

I love marveling at good type design because I know how much effort it takes to make things look just right.To me, theres no deck of playing cards that uses intertwining fonts better than the Type Dec...

Be sure to read Adrian Chen's gripping profile of former Westboro Baptist Church twitterer Megan Phelps-Roper, who left the church after coming to realize the futility of its hate gospel.On December 2...

Donald Trump, back on top of Republican polls, has called for the creation of a national database of Muslims. Similar to the systems used by the Nazis to track Jews during the Holocaust, the idea has ...

Gunmen stormed the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital earlier today, reportedly taking up to 170 hostages.The BBC reports that Malian special forces are fighting to take back the building and...

Dozens are reported dead after gunmen stormed the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital earlier today.The attackers reportedly took up to 170 hostages before Malian special forces stormed the bu...

Beset by blackmailers and tabloid rumors, actor Charlie Sheen was recently forced to announce that he is HIV-positive. The most newsworthy thing to come out of it, I think, is a nondisclosure agreemen...

A dumbass posted a thought experiment "proving" that homosexuality was wrong posited three islands: a gay island, a lesbian island and a straight island, in which the two former dwindle away without r...

Khartabil has been imprisoned in a Syria's Adra Prison since 2012, though as of October, he has been transferred to an undisclosed location. The free software/open culture activist was the lead for Cr...

Khartabil has been imprisoned in a Syria's Adra Prison since 2012, though as of October, he has been transferred to an undisclosed location. The free software/open culture activist was the lead for Cr...

The statistician and risk analyst, who rose to prominence with his 2007 book The Black Swan, has a history of sticking up for junk science, but has crossed a Rubicon with his latest set of tweets, in ...

The statistician and risk analyst, who rose to prominence with his 2007 book The Black Swan, has a history of sticking up for junk science, but has crossed a Rubicon with his latest set of tweets, in ...

Take an additonal 15% off today only on the below products in the Boing Boing Store by using coupon code: DOORBUSTER at checkout!The future of photography is here--and Lytro has taken their technology...

Eric Lafforgue is a prolific, talented photographer who's travelled the world, living among people in many hard-to-reach places and telling their stories with his camera. Among the most striking sets ...

Using just five scenes and three keystrokes, renowned minimalist game designer Pippin Barr has released a dark, thoughtful piece on gun violence, made with his wife Rilla Khaled. A Series of Gunshots ...

The English NHS is at the very end of a key consultation on the future of its "mandate" -- which sets out its goals and budgets -- and though the public has been able to comment since October, the NHS...

Hammacher Schlemmer is a mostly mail-order company from which Ive bought some lovely cashmere sweaters for my wife at Christmas. The company is renowned for its entertaining mail-order catalogue (and ...

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer th...

In an earnings call in which Caterpillar execs explained their dismal takings to investors, Cat execs explained their plan to grow by leasing tractors to Chinese companies with crummy track-records fo...

Kamasi Washington, 34, is a saxophonist and composer who is carrying the spiritual jazz torch pioneered by the likes of John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Albert Ayler, and Stanley Cowell. But his soun...

Red mercury is a mythological compound that allows nuclear weapons to be radically miniaturized. That mercury oxide (and anything else reasonably described as such) is useless for blowing stuff up mat...

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Ted Koppel's new book, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath warns of an impending disaster when America's critical infrastructure will be destroyed by cyberattackers...

Eric McDavid, a 26-year-old, nonviolent anarchist activist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a paid FBI informant promised to have sex with him if he'd help her bomb some unspecified targets ...

After years of missteps, blunders and disasters in which Youtube users have been censored through spurious copyright claims or had their accounts deleted altogether, Google has announced an amazing, u...

BB pal Mitch Altman informs us that he's ceased manufacturing on his marvelous invention the TV-B-Gone, a keychain remote control that turns off any television with a push of the button. It's great fu...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaWu2uhmRQAlan "Watchmen" Moore, the Wizard of Northampton, gives some frank advice to beginning writers at a Q&A at a 2011 an anti-library-closure protest at St Jam...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.In 1977 and 1978 Topps, the famous bubble gum trading card company, issued five series of Star Wars trading cards. Each series had 66 cards and 11 stickers, and...

The right-wing Telegraph can't deny what critics have been saying since the Tony Blair years: when you use private to fund public services, the only people who benefit are the shareholders. (more&hell...

https://youtu.be/_PZBtWNxlQsIn this totally non-phallic animated cartoon from 1968 about Lyndon B. Johnsons escalation of the Vietnam war, we see the orgasmic annihilation of the American Dream in a m...

In this [NSFW] totally non-phallic animated cartoon from 1968 about Lyndon B. Johnsons escalation of the Vietnam war, we see the orgasmic annihilation of the American Dream in a montage of cigarette...

Graham Dunning made this fantastic techno music-making contraption in which a DJ turntable triggers a variety of mechanical percussive sounds that are fed through effects boxes. Incredible! ...

Tomorrow evening (11/20), San Francisco's de Young Museum will celebrate "100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area" with an event organized by UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg and Alexande...

tl;dr: they had no prep time, made real-time changes to the story as they shot it, and props and scenes were thrown together as they needed them. Jackson says that his winging-it"making it up there ...

https://youtu.be/cZkAP-CQlhAWho stuffed this microwave antenna to the bursting point with 35-50 lbs of acorns? Some say it was a squirrel, others blame a woodpecker. But these animals are so similar t...

The day after authorities in Paris say they killed the suspected ringleader of last week's terror attacks, footage has emerged of one of the targeted cafs. (more…)...

David Bowers, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, recently praised the concentration camps that the US built during World War II to imprison Japanese American adults and children. And, according to Bowers...

You may have heard that "screen time" -- time with TV, phones, tablets, computers, or video games -- is bad for babies and toddlers. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics reversed course on t...

Amazon has a promo code so you can get this garlic press for $9. It's regularly $18. (Use code 25NLO83R at checkout) It includes a free silicone tube garlic clove peeler, like the kind reviewed here....

YouTuber Adrian Gee of Australia has over 100 million views for his "social experiment" videos. He recently uploaded a video where he posed as a blind man standing in the street. He would approach s...

Reuters, the news agency, has banned photographers from filing photos captured in RAW format, mandating in-camera JPGs instead. This, it believes, will cut down on processing timeand prevent photograp...

Studies are routinely hand-picked to make drugs seem more effective than they are, television constantly tells you to take drugs, and doctors prescribing drugs get kickbacks from phamaceutical compani...

Even when action-figure head sculpts are great, the paintjobs can be pretty indifferent, with eyelashes on foreheads. Ibentmyman-thing has, through trial-and-error, come up with a method for priming a...

Even when action-figure head sculpts are great, the paintjobs can be pretty indifferent, with eyelashes on foreheads. Ibentmyman-thing has, through trial-and-error, come up with a method for priming a...

Engineer Alex Weinberg reviews suspension bridge scenes in movies and finds their representation of structural mechanics to be wobbly at best. Embedded above is the most accurate he found, from Fina...

Pete Reynolds in McSweeney's, proving that humor is a better source of news than the news is: "I refuse to support special interest groups whose sole mission is to profit from putting weapons into the...

This post is a heartfelt thank you from Loog Guitars CEO Rafael Atijas. Loog is a company that we at Boing Boing are proud to have helped grow. We are thrilled to see them join us as a sponsor. The en...

This post is a heartfelt thank you from Loog Guitars CEO Rafael Atijas. Loog is a company that we at Boing Boing are proud to have helped grow. We are thrilled to see them join us as a sponsor. To ent...

 Hexa is a next-generation drone. With its unique six propeller design, Hexa delivers ultimate control for flying in every direction and pulling off ridiculous stunts. Simply throw it in the air,...

A new Global Terrorism Index annual report claims Boko Haram in Nigeria is the world's deadliest extremist group, with the grim honor of having killed more people than ISIS (or Daesh), to which it ...

ISIS, or as they hate to be called, Daesh, released a video online Wednesday threatening an imminent attack on New York City. (more…)...

In France, police are searching for three terrorism supporters who stabbed a Jewish school teacher at a Jewish school in Marseille. (more…)...

Otto Frank sought help from his college friend Nathan Strauss Jr, the son of the owner of Macy's, to get a US visa, but the US State Department turned him and his family down. (more…)...

This week's XKCD has a hell of an Easter Egg, and it's not even in the tooltip. (more…)...

You can't release a film in the UK without a certificate from the British Board of Film Certification, a censorship authority that's been rating and banning movies since it was established in 1912 to ...

Above, The Mickey Mouse Club, circa 1930. Below, Mickey's first appearance, a May 15, 1928, test screening of the cartoon Plane Crazy. The film wasn't picked up by a distributor and as a result we cel...

Subway systems are circulatory systems, moving the lifeblood of a city from place to place beneath its skin. In the game Mini Metro, you get to be the engineer who maps out the veins, connecting all t...

A new report from the Manhattan District Attorney calls for law requiring "any designer of an operating system for a smartphone or tablet manufactured, leased, or sold in the U.S. to ensure that data ...

Beloved reality TV star and child molestor Josh Duggar, idolized as a cherished paragon of traditional family values by presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and other social conservatives, is getting ...

I blogged the announcement of the Qwerkywriter more than a year ago, when the company was retooling from its successful kickstarter to full retail production. I've had one of the production models in ...

When car drivers hear a car horn they react instantly. Bike bells, not so much. The Loud Mini bike horn sounds like a car horn. Great idea. The creators are almost fully funded on Kickstarter, with ...

How Stuff Works explains the "Transatlantic Accent," a cultivated accent that people in the United States affected in an attempt to trick others that they were in some way affiliated with the Britis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GDZBXZunzMEvan Griffin's dad borrowed his Gopro for a Vegas holiday and walked the strip for days with the camera on the end of a selfie-stick -- pointed the wrong w...

In the decade since publishing embraced ebooks in earnest, we've seen a cornucopia of exciting and innovative ways technology is being used to enhance reading. By utilizing all the tricks at our Inter...

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Playboy Enterprises has agreed to a settlement with a woman who claims she was injured when a co-host of The Playboy Morning Show hit her in the buttocks with a golf club. The incident occurred at t...

As a Star Wars fan, and self-proclaimed shoe diva, these boots make me tingle somewhere far, far away. They're available from Irregular Choice....

I am completely deactivated for the duration of this video. Previously....

These little LED flashlights come in handy, and are more convenient than using your phone to light up a dark area. They come with batteries, and the buttons have a small catch on them so you can keep ...

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See more photos at Wink Fun.750 Years in Paris is a historical graphic novel sans words as well as a stunning coffee table art book. Paris-based artist Vincent Mah (aka Mr. Bidon) illustrates 60 snaps...

When I first saw the Atari 2600 in 1979, I was completely floored. I wondered how those geniuses could fit so much fun into those tiny bricks of plastic. For each game, they only had 4k to work with a...

A new working paper [PDF] from three Harvard Business School researchers builds on the work of Texas A&M professor Markus Fitza, whose paper in last month's Strategic Management Journal showed that ne...

Stock buybacks (previously) allow CEOs to drive up the company's share-price by using profits to buy shares back from investors, rather than investing the money in wages, R&D, capital or expansion. (m...

Stock buybacks (previously) allow CEOs to drive up the company's share-price by using profits to buy shares back from investors, rather than investing the money in wages, R&D, capital or expansion. (m...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, sig...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, sig...

As the saying goes: when life gives you Marshmallow, jumpstart a thriving career! Android's latest platform has opened up even more demand for Android developers, and now's your shot to learn the rope...

Despite the rumors that tricked more than half the state governors in the USA into enacting racist anti-Syrian policies, there is no evidence that the Paris attackers came from outside the EU. (more&h...

Wired's Klint Finley tried turning off Javascript and discovered a better Web, one without interruptors asking you to sign up for mailing list, without infinitely scrolling pages, without ads and with...

Two design students are hoping to raise $4900 to fund production on archival/acid-free/recycled post-consumer wrapping paper emblazoned with delicious pizza toppings. They bundle the paper with matchi...

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By now you've heard the entire world would be saved if only everyone learned to code. Now, a tutorial made by Minecraft developer Mojang and its new parent Microsoft is here to teach coding fundamenta...

Lots of law enforcement agencies hate crypto, because the technology that helps us protect our communications from criminals and griefers and stalkers and spies also helps criminals keep secrets from ...

Hundreds of thousands of women in Texas women may have tried to self-induce abortions, according to a first of its kind study from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP). (more…)...

A New York man who spent a month in jail after Pennsylvania state police mistook homemade soap he was traveling with for cocaine has filed a lawsuit. (more…)...

An overnight blast blamed on the Islamic extremist terror organization Boko Haram killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria. (more…)...

French journalist Nicolas Hnin was held hostage for ten months by ISIS terrorists, chained in an underground cell; his cellmates were later murdered by ISIS. For nearly a year, he lived with ISIS figh...

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War is a new book by veteran Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of WisconsinMadison, abou...

CIA Director John Brennan wants you to think the Paris attacks were Snowden's fault -- the "hand wringing" over mass surveillance has ended his agency's ability to "thwart" terrorists attacks "before ...

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The small town of Minturn, Colorado won the 2015 America's Best Bathroom Contest put on by Cintas, a company that handles restroom cleaning and supplies among other things. Minter's Town Planning Dire...

Here's how the spike trick is supposed to work: a magician shows the spectator a large nail mounted on a block of wood. He sets it on the table so the nail is pointed up. Then he covers the nail with ...

British maker and video host Colin Furze dug up his backyard and built a fantastic underground bunker under his lawn to save himself from the apocalypse or at least hide out and play videogames, roc...

What was once the busiest freight port in the world recently held another freight hauling competition, but with a catch: all the boats were remote-controlled, had to fit in a 2'x2'x2' box, and had to ...

Join LA's best comedy troupe 2Headed Dog next Tuesday night, 8pm, at the Steve Allen theater!Jim Turner, Mark Fite, Dave "Gruber" Allen and Craig Anton put up the most fun show I have seen in years!...

Join LA's best comedy troupe 2 Headed Dog next Tuesday night, 8pm, at the Steve Allen theater!Jim Turner, Mark Fite, Dave "Gruber" Allen and Craig Anton put up the most fun show I have seen in years...

Mirror Lake will make a procedurally generated bowl for you. Sometimes the bowl is empty, which sounds like a parable, but mostly it is just a bowl. Sometimes it is in space. Click again, and you'll b...

What if we could automate the writing of clickbait headlines, thus freeing up clickbait writers to do useful work? That's the question Lars Eidnes wanted to answer when he programmed a recurrent neura...

I loved watching the 1986 comedy TV series "Sledge Hammer!" as a kid. David Rasche's portrayal of San Francisco's most aggressive, least sensitive, and completely absurd police detective, the titula...

Dead since Halloween 1926, Harry Houdini just wont die. Thats a paradox, but the old bastard really wont go away.The question has always lingered about how much of the myth of Houdini was created and ...

This is apparently a 2500:1 shot of a White-lipped snail, showing its finery in the finest detail. Eye of Science is the source, and offers many more striking examples of nature photography. [via]...

This is apparently a 2500:1 shot of a White-lipped snail, showing its finery in the finest detail. Eye of Science is the source, and offers many more striking examples of nature photography. [via]...

This amusing criticism of game rating inflation is doing the rounds. Who can deny that game ratings are inflated? And that if it gets less than 7, it's gonna suck.But the suggestion that this inflatio...

In the New Yorker's annual tech issue, Emily Witt profiles the founders of Erowid, "a couple in their mid-forties -- a man and a woman who call themselves Earth and Fire, respectively." In The Trip Pl...

https://youtu.be/-IcULTH0OekVideo from Anonymous tells ISIS "we will lay waste to every digital tool you use to recruit and fight. Governments of the world, if you want to defeat ISIS, all you must do...

Honestly, some parents. What on Earth were they thinking?The Doctor's real name revealed in 1980 comic book. Credit to u/swanzie for image. [r/doctorwho]...

As previously mentioned, the nice folks at Shaken sell subscriptions to monthly cocktail kits, which comprise a selection of rare and delicious ingredients and simple instructions for mixing and varyi...

After my spam hit a point where I couldn't actually download my email faster than it was arriving, I spent a month clicking the unsubscribe links in all the spams in my inbox. Weirdly, it worked. (mor...

This preview of next season's engines reveals categorical differences with the current specifications. (Reddit, amazingly, found the original.)...

If you think the recent Steve Jobs movie was oversimplified, wait until you get a load of The Careers of the Founders, a visualization of famous entrepreneurs' hits and misses. How did the greatest en...

Proposed rules in the Mormon church would deny baptism to the children of gay parents until they are 18 years old, and mandate that they denounce homosexuality in order to receive it.The BBC reports t...

Robbo writes, "Giapetta's Workshop is a multi-faceted interactive adventure story and hand-crafting jewelry kit, all-in-one, for 8-12 year olds that teaches the fundamentals of coding. They're running...

Pop Chart Lab was founded in 2010 by a book editor and a designer, with the modest goal of rendering all of human experience in chart form. Since then theyve charted a wide array of cultural touchston...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...

The hand-wash 55" knit scarf is $25 from Thinkgeek, with faux-fur ears. (via Oh Gizmo)...

Set the mood with the ilumi A21 Bluetooth Smartbulb, a color-tunable LED light you can control and program wirelessly from your smartphone. Log onto the free app to choose from millions of colors, adj...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6mlr_MX2VISome of Miller's TIG welding power supplies come intentionally crippled, locking out many useful functions until you buy a $400 SD card. (more…)...

The deaths from terrorism are unspeakable tragedies. It goes without saying. But the mortality due to terrorism -- total deaths per capita -- are very low, lower than car-wrecks or traditional murder....

The UK Prime Minister has seized on the tragic deaths and injuries in Paris as an excuse to terroise Britons into allowing him to pass his Snoopers Charter, a sweeping, badly written surveillance bill...

The Arxi collection from Ukrainian designer Konstantin Kofta is a series of bags inspired by the ornaments of Baroque architecture. (more…)...

Hamilton's the kind of city where half of City Hall says they've been bullied at work, where the "accountability" committee charges you $100 to make a complaint and will only investigate if you are ne...

A camping trip went horribly awry. It sounds exactly like a horror movie. This horrible news from CBS19 Anderson County, Texas: The bodies of all six victims were found Sunday on private property in A...

Matthew Hankins catalogs 500 phrases used in scientific articles that researchers use to figleaf the fact that their results aren't statistically significant, and to hand-wave-away the fact that they'...

A smashing editorial in Nature catalogs the many ways in which scientists end up tricking themselves into seeing evidence that isn't there, resulting in publishing false positive. Many of these are fa...

At 1pm PT today (in 5 minutes!) I'll be on a Skillshare Ask Me Anything. As the title suggests, you can ask me anything, but I'll primarily be talking about Arduino and DIY tools and techniques for ma...

https://youtu.be/UFNpMyMNqK0It's part toy, part political cartoon: Indies Alejandro "Aquma" Quan-Madrid and Arjun "Archie" Prakash have created an iOS and Android app that envisions Donald Trump, kn...

For $1.5 million, you can be the proud new owner of Westland, Michigan's Eloise Complex, a building that started in 1839 as a poorhouse and has served as a tuberculosis ward and insane asylum before c...

In 2011, the roof of a flaming building fell on volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison, burning his firefighting mask onto his head. As a result, Hardison, now 41, has spent more than a decade without...

Gardening games tend to be soothing cycles of repetition: You plant, you water, you harvest, and then you do it again. You play them to relax, which is probably why so few of those games are set durin...

I'ma stuff my face to a funky beat!...

My son Lux, age 9, is an avid record collector. Unlike me, Lux has the patience to dig through the $1 bins wherever there is cheap vinyl to be had: thrift shops, garage sales, flea markets, record s...

Yasuomi Hirai, 28, allegedly hid in a drain under a Kobe, Japan sidewalk grate to peep up the skirts of women as they stepped over. (more…)...

This deforestation machine slices and plucks trees at their base and then wipes off all the branches and foliage in just a few seconds. (Thanks, Dustin Hosteler!)...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us writing on witch folklore, the intimate language of games, and a lost design doc made by Carl Sagan. (more…)...

Metaratr serves up the unlistened-to work of amateur and prospective musicians on Soundcloud. Who knowsmaybe you'll be the one to discover the next Justin Bieber! M E T A R A T R is a site where you...

They're described as "anomalies," reflecting the nature of the non-invasive technology used to try and see into the stone of the Egyptian pyramids. But what exactly do the temperature differences reve...

Law and the Multiverse uses comics and movies to explain the law; today they turn their hands to the evidence that Batman provides to Commissioner Gordon, and how district attorneys like Harvey Dent w...

If you're looking to pursue a high-paying, high-reward career in coding, JavaScript is the language to learn. But it takes a lot more than basic coding know-how to rise to the top of the developer foo...

A video remix of Flock of Seagulls's I Ran and a whole bunch of NTSC-haloed TV ads, uploaded to youtube by g1MisterBo, The 80s.mp4 features much that is good and very little that is bad about that d...

Terrorism's goal is to commit frightening, high-profile crimes that scare people into making rash, expensive decisions that make the world look like the terrorists would like to see it. (more…)...

Behold the Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle, by the Altra Volta String Quartet.Jacek Dzwonowski performs both the traditional instrument and its postmodern counterpart.Here is anot...

Officers reportedly shot an assault suspect who hindered EMS access to his victim in Minneapolis on Sunday, but many locals are unhappy with the force's version of events.The man was handcuffed at the...

Experts knew there was a graveyard under Manchester's Metrolink tramline, but the sheer scale of the excavation277 unearthed bodieshas made news worldwide.The archeological dig is a prelude to develop...

Going to the cookie exchange? It just got real. Head on over to Copypastry and get your face made into a cookie cutter. ...

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.Konstantin TsiolkovskyHumanity traveling to the stars is an ancient dream, and a late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...

Via Imgur; redditor bloominhell reports that it's the work of Glasgow artist David Shrigley. Previously....

An unarmed North Carolina man was shot dead this weekend by Sheriffs deputies in Harnett County, who reportedly kicked in his door after misidentifying his home as that of a suspect in another crime.W...

Eire we go, at last! The BBC reports that the Republic of Ireland will now permit same-sex couples to wed.It is not yet known when and where the first same-sex wedding will be held.But the first peopl...

Magicpeacelove writes, "Shin Lim, who created the extraordinary card act that took Penn & Teller (and the magic world) by storm has just released another rather stunning card act, this one in tribut...

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Charles Darwins first impressions, when he first saw a carnivorous plant in 1875, were the inspiration for this 1-minute animated video by Francisco Sanchez de Caete.Im a spanish berlin based Art Di...

Researchers are warning that ads could play coded sounds outside the range of human hearing to secretly communicate with other gadgets within earshot.The technique, which several companies are reporte...

Gauntlet, Atari's 1985 dungeon-looting arcade game, came long after the heyday of its successful home console. But CDS Games has managed to pack a playable version of the complex action RPG into the p...

The setup is pretty weird: Arnie fell through a dimensional portal behind a Chicago Burger King and found humself in a magical high-fantasy kingdom called Foon, where he has befriended a shape-shifter...

Have you ever wondered why the Internet is always just a little bit too slow to support the kind of activity you're trying to undertake? My latest Locus column, The Internet Will Always Suck, hypothes...

Actually it's a Octopus Stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) at type of fungus, but a girl can dream can't she?...

Its no secret that project management is one of the most valued and profitable skills today. Whether you develop proprietary tools for a tech company, or you regularly plan and execute tasks, this cou...

The Womanizer is a new, $189 sex toy from the legendary Good Vibrations, billed as a "clitoral stimulator." While woman reviewers universally hate the name and many dislike the leopard-spotted finish,...

Apply vibrato, bend a string, fingerpickJamstik feels and performs like a normal guitar, but also conveniently connects with all the Apple music apps and software you could ever need. Jamstik is perfe...

My 12-year-old daughter recently picked up my long-neglected ukulele and has gotten pretty good at it in a short amount of time. I lost my ukulele pitch pipe, so she's been using an online tone genera...

For his latest piece at Collectors Weekly, Hunter Oatman-Stanford spoke to filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz about the Horn & Hardart chain of cafeterias and automats. Despite being limited to Philadelphia and N...

The latest installment of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast (MP3) interviews science fiction author William Shunn, author of the The Accidental Terrorist, a memoir that explains the bizarre circu...

The creator offers a lot of sound advice on owning and caring for geckos, too. Images and build-log [Overlordofllama]...

The Gallaher How to Do Its were a set of British 100 cigarette cards, each depicting and describing a 19th (?) century life-hack (the collection is undated). (more…)...

The Anne Frank Foundation -- a Swiss nonprofit that supports children's charities and provides a stipend to gentiles who hid Jews during WWII -- has claimed that Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, is th...

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A series of explosions and shootings killed at least 60 people in Paris Friday night in the worst acts of violence to hit France since World War II.The seemingly-coordinated attacks took place at mult...

Terror attacks killed at least 160 people in Paris Friday night, the worst acts of violence to hit France since World War II.The seemingly-coordinated shootings and explosions took place at at least s...

Terror attacks killed at least 153 people in Paris Friday night, the worst acts of violence to hit France since World War II.The seemingly-coordinated shootings and explosions took place at at least s...

As many as 153 people were killed in a series of terror attacks across Paris Friday night, with Middle-East terror group ISIS claiming responsibility in the aftermath. Authorities described the carnag...

"My grandfather's plane was reported lost in 1960 during the Algeria Independence War, days before the birth of his first child," writes Armel Gibson, in the introduction for his game, Oases. "This is...

The festival of lights, indeed. (Thanks, Jordan Kurland!)...

It started as a maker project, became a viral shoop, then a successful kickstarter, and now there's a product: the $75 keyboard waffle-iron....

In a characteristically thought-provoking longread on Ribbonfarm (previously) Haley Thurston concludes her Better Art Vocabulary series by arguing that art is a technology, that it moves through techn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRDzl3oqeUThe company continues its amazing tradition of surprising and delightful holiday subscriptions with a $15, eight-part Hannukah mystery gift offering. I jus...

The mother a 13-year-old girl has been unable to get Facebook to remove a photo that her daughter and a 12-year-old friend were tricked into having taken, which is being used to promote the violent ne...

The mother a 13-year-old girl has been unable to get Facebook to remove a photo that her daughter and a 12-year-old friend were tricked into having taken, which is being used to promote the violent ne...

Danish artist Steffen Dam creates exquisite, minimalist "cabinets of curiosity" fashioned from glass and containing specimens of his own creation."My aim is to describe the world as I see it," Dam say...

Silverpush, a startup that's just received $1.25M in venture capital, uses ultrasonic chirps that are emitted by apps, websites, and TV commercials to combine the identities associated with different ...

Dutch psych-rockers Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz," from their 1969 LP At Home. Far fucking out. Nirvana famously covered the song as their first single in 1988 and it later appeared on Bleach. Below, ...

https://youtu.be/YkJS0IzZREkAfter many TV networks blurred out parts of Amedeo Modigliani's 1917 painting of a nude woman (Nu Couch) that sold for $170.4 million at Christie's New York on Monday, Step...

Albuquerque police officer Jeremy Dear was ordered to wear a body-camera after many of the city's residents complained about their encounters with him. Afterward, he routinely failed to plug in the ca...

Some people have jobs at places where reading Reddit on the clock is frowned upon. This Reddit skin, which looks like Microsoft Outlook, is for them....

Craig Barnes, a grad student at Central St Martins in Kings Cross, London, bought and refurbished one of the last 60 Futuro houses, originally designed in the 1960s as modular ski chalets by famed Fin...

Why did the Star Wars movies come out in the sequence 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3?Because in charge of sequence, Yoda was.(via r/jokes)...

https://youtu.be/TdrAF3xk4pIIn South Korea, where the rate of suicide is on the rise, a former funeral director has established a "death experience" therapy center to help people understand the benefi...

As I have often noted, medical devices have terrifyingly poor security models, even when compared to the rest of the nascent Internet of Things, where security is, at best, an afterthought (at worst, ...

I hope the teacher didn't mark it wrong. [via]...

Remember the glory days of playing Super Nintendo on that classic gray controller with its signature purple push buttons? Yeah, we do too.8Bitdo is bringing the 8-bit gaming vibe back with the SNES30...

Makes me want to hop on a fucking plane to NYC right now. (mediocrefilms)...

https://youtu.be/XwdUXS94yNkThis video was made by Finland-based Fragile Childhood, "an awareness-raising campaign, which aims to reduce parents' use of alcohol by helping them understand the harm it ...

Kathryn Cramer writes, "Jesse Friedman, age 14, has developed some code for getting Wolfram Language to tell a few jokes.Although most of WL's jokes are not funny, the generative language tools are an...

Rumanian Punishment Gifts by Etelka Penquelik is not a real book, but don't you wish it were? It's from designer Sean Tejaratchi's fantastic LiarTownUSA site....

Michael from Muckrock writes, "Mr. Russell Jones. Maybe the name doesn't ring any bells for you. On February 3, 1999, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation first ran their records on him, there wer...

When I was a mechanical engineer in the late 1980s I used Microsoft QuickBASIC to write and create simple programs for work. I loved it. It was a compiled BASIC, too, so it was speedy. I used it to re...

A police officer pulled over a Google self-driving car yesterday because it was going only 24 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone. But the car had no driver, so he could not issue a ticket. The officer as...

A timely entry from the Scarfolk blog, which documents the doings in a small, sinister English town caught in a loop between 1970 and 1979: the I-Spy Surveillance books, which "transformed the tedium ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Mindfulness Coloring Book came out last January by London-based illustrator Emma Farrarons, and it immediately sold out and became a national bestseller. I ...

Tantalum is a 2D ray tracer that runs in the browser. Just click anywhere in the scene and watch those rays go a-scatterin' through the simulated optics.You can reconfigure the contents of the scene, ...

When you think about it, the design of playing cards is ridiculously complicated and to create a truly unique deck could take many months. Its one thing to take an existing template and alter it a bit...

https://youtu.be/6GYc0ragGOIA Virginia man who died in police custody was tased 20 times in 30 minutes, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed by his sister.Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased 10 times ...

Amnesty International's No End in Sight: Torture and Forced Confessions in China interviews 37 Chinese lawyers and analyzes 590 court decisions in the process of documenting the routine torture of hum...

Global Justice Now's "Corporate Monopoly" is an excellent piece of information design; it's a playable boardgame adapted from Monopoly (itself originally designed to teach the evils of capitalism), in...

c-90.org is a thing of wonder, not least for the Catalogue of Tapes, each lovingly photographed and organized by brand.This page is dedicated to cassette tapes. Here you won't find any kind of scienti...

We won't be colonizing this one first! Exoplanet HD189733b, previously determined to contain water in its atmosphere, is blasted by 2 kilometers-per-second winds, say researchers at the University of...

The EDC Card [via] is exactly what its name promises: a multitool designed to fit into a wallet and be carried around every day, just in case you run into an opportunity to show off your EDC Card.This...

Donald Trump unloaded on fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson last night, describing his rival as "pathological" and comparing his behavior to that of a child molester.The Donald's wrath fell only...

Even if it were a bleak ironic joke, the perfect mix of contempt and need in his eyes would make it too grotesque to be funny. But this was an actual ad running for Bloomingdales, and it has apologize...

Shut up and take my money, Lumio. Just shut right up and take it. Jesus! (more…)...

A gorgeous Northern Lights video by Markus Kiili from Ylls, Lapland, Finland in September, 2015. (more…)...

"Fordite" is an anthropocenic mineral "formed from the built up of layers of enamel paint slag on tracks and skids on which cars were hand spray-painted (a now automated process), which have been bake...

A clever fellow explains.You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them...

Calling all writers! Wink Books is looking for writers to review books. Reviewers also need to take some photos of the books they review. If youre interested, check out our site, and then email me (ca...

https://youtu.be/u6zwnmlzZSQHuffington Post posted this video that was filmed on the University of Missouri campus on October 10. It shows a group of peaceful black protestors being hassled and assaul...

On November 4, 1975, David Bowie performed "Golden Years" on Soul Train. Sure, he was lip-syncing, but who cares. The Thin White Duke's got soul. The Bowie Golden Years site has more background on t...

The holidays are nigh, and with them, the annual pilgrimages made by millions back to their hometowns. For some, this is an opportunity to bask in the warm glow that radiates from the memories of thei...

From Herb Lester Associates, clever hotel notepads from fictional movie and television hotels! For 12.00, you get six pads: Bertrams Hotel (At Bertrams Hotel, Agatha Christie) The Great Northern Hotel...

https://youtu.be/SclN-2CteXMI could literally watch this all day. (more…)...

A new study says that this small eel photographed by accident on a Caribbean coral reef is the first green fluorescent fish ever recorded. (more…)...

Food delivery startup DoorDash is being sued by one of the restaurants it buys food from, In-N-Out Burger. (more…)...

On the Web, reputation is a critical currency. But reputation is tricky. The way it's measured changes from platform to platform, network to network. And the way we evaluate the reputation of people, ...

Christian ministry Answers In Genesis report that their massive Noah's Ark attraction will open next July in Williamstown, Kentucky. This is the same organization behind the infamous Creation Museum w...

Rocky's 1984 defeat of Ivan Drago was a singular moment in professional boxing that had massive cultural and political implications. "If I can change, and you can change, everyone can change!"(Colle...

https://youtu.be/2p_8gx-XHJo"Rocket" is not one of the 1,000 most common words in the English language, so it's called an "up goer" in the excellent xkcd video that explains space travel in simple ter...

Charlie Bucket, Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and an Oompa Loompa got together to chat about being in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. They haven't aged a day!T...

One Flew Over the Cuckooo's Nest by Ken Kesey took place in Salem, Oregon. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was based in Chicago. The Shining by Stephen King took place in Estes, Colorado. These novels, a...

Three screeners working for Covenant Aviation Security -- the TSA contractor that provides government-funded genital massages at SFO -- have been arrested for alleged participation in a scheme to smug...

Professor Melissa Click says she can't recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for "muscle" to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker say...

NZ Prime Minister John Key is a racist blowhard who has smeared the opposition parties of "backing the rapists" for their support of allowing NZ citizens with minor criminal convictions (not sexual as...

Amazon has a good deal on a TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) therapy electronic pulse massager. It's just $16 when you use code C4MMPX22 at checkout.Transcutaneous electrical nerve s...

Last May, Jackie Burns, the deputy leader of the Labour Council in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, voted to close all public toilets as part of the Scottish government's £22 million cost-cutting ...

There's no one else on Earth who's more familiar with the surveillance capabilities of governments, spy agencies and criminals who is also willing to discuss those capabilities. Edward Snowden's wide-...

The Metropolitan opera only just stopped using blackface performers. Yes! White dudes were blacking up to play Othello until 2015 and still things needed to be explained to them. In Shakespeare's time...

Your account has been disabled for pretending to be someone else.Teachers don't go into education to get rich. It's a great job, the rewards are awesome and although they're not financial, they are of...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Hive Pocket is a strategy and tile-laying game for two players. It's the more portable version of the original game, Hive, with a couple of expansion pieces and a cloth bag...

Courtney Brown's sculpture "Self Organization" adds gorgeous brass tentacles to an Underwood Noiseless typewriter, for an effect that's fantastic, seeming to surface some latent, Naked Lunch-ish truth...

U Penn political scientist Marie Gottschalk has a new book out, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, in which she expands on her prodigious work on the root causes of Americ...

While visiting a friend recently, I stayed at a local hotel and got a chance to try out the Quickcakes Popcake PC-11 Pancake Extruder. About a yard wide, it has a single button on it, a small monoch...

Say goodbye to your annoying, bulky key ring.KeySmart($15.99)organizes your keys in one convenient, compact, and lightweight place. The extended frame lets you easily attach longer and foreign keys, a...

Say goodbye to your annoying, bulky key ring.KeySmart($15.99)organizes your keys in one convenient, compact, and lightweight place. The extended frame lets you easily attach longer and foreign keys, a...

The UK government has budgeted £175m/year to bribe ISPs to magically divide their customers' "data" and "metadata" and store a year's worth of the latter. This isn't even close to the real cost ...

https://youtu.be/D7_0SOTQLIQAn internet classic from 2011. Don't worry honey, Biggie's coming back. (more…)...

Giant multinational offshoring firms have figured out how to game the H1-B system, flooding the application queue with thousands of requests the instant the process opens each year. It's transformed t...

A hankering for Hot Pockets saved the life of a man whose apartment was hit by a small plane. Jason Bartley, a 38-year-old factory, worker lost everything in the fiery crash--except his own life.Nine ...

https://youtu.be/mXLzfAHl4-kSimone Giertz says, "I built an alarm clock that wakes me up in the morning by slapping me in the face with a rubber arm. I picked apart a clock, wired it to an Arduino UNO...

The latest Humble Ebook Bundle features Make: books from "Planes, Gliders, and Paper Rockets" to "Bicycle Projects" to the "Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments" -- 17 titles in all,...

Wow. @CarnegieMellon is America's Shanghai Jiaotong. https://t.co/UAtaAgJvJh— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 11, 2015Documents published by Vice News: Motherboard and further reporting b...

Matthew Ritter's interest in epitaphs began in junior high, when a history book displayed the haunting message on the grave of an ancient Roman: "What I am you soon shall be." He started writing epita...

I often think about the fact we don't really have 'online lives' any more. When I was small, to have a 'handle', to get on the Information Superhighway, was like attending a masquerade ball on a brand...

Troy Little, creator of the graphic novel adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been keeping a diary of his book signing tour. Here's the latest installments:Check o...

Our Magic from R. Paul Wilson on Vimeo.The documentary Our Magic by filmmaker R. Paul Wilson lifts the curtain behind which magicians have worked for a century and a half. Our Magic, however, does n...

An important story out today confirms that SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower leak system originally programmed by Aaron Swartz and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation, works. (more&...

Between Jan. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2014, Los Angeles County district attorney records show at least 375 people were shot by on-duty officers. No officers have been prosecuted for any of those shooting...

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer th...

Hilarious and silly, A Book of Surrealist Games is a fantastic introduction to the surrealist mind-set. In addition to just being fun to peruse, this collection of written, visual and verbal games is ...

https://youtu.be/y6L2ibmlTx4London's Metropolitan Police released a video today showing a man trying to steal a convertible red Porsche. He used a knife to cut a hole in the roof, and hopped it. Inter...

London's Metropolitan Police released a video today showing a man trying to steal a convertible red Porsche. He used a knife to cut a hole in the roof, and hopped it. Interestingly, pedestrians walk...

London's Metropolitan Police released a video today showing a man trying to steal a convertible red Porsche. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/833Qe7AmKo4"Oh! Oh wow! Everythings's different. Even me!" (more…)...

This is the best price I've seen on a 20000mAh USB portable charger. It's $36, but if you use the promotion code Y4DFT2KK at checkout you can buy it for $18 (at least it was $18 the last time I checke...

A 1968 memo from Paramount producer Robert Justman to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry reports on the sad state of the show's hairpieces, which had gone missing in great number. (more…)...

People who are upset that Starbucks is not religious enough for them now have an option. They can buy this reusable, travel mug with Satanic symbols from Etsy seller Cara the Corpse for $20....

Journalist/educator Lisa Rein is looking for $20,000 to complete a documentary called "From DeadDrop to SecureDrop," which chronicles the development of the last technology project that Aaron Swartz...

Floral/fruity scents have long been characterized as attractive to mosquitoes, so it's natural that New Mexico States Molecular Vector Physiology Lab researcher Stacy Rodriguez tested a floral/fruity...

"Midgets" dressed in camouflage. Worms emerging from the car floor. Possums jumping out of the microwave. People jumping out of the refrigerator. I don't blame Brandon Terry and Casey Fowler of Sparta...

Todd writes, "I made this ridiculous thing. Click on his head for more lorem." (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Complete Beatles Songs has gone through several editions over the last 20 years as author Steve Turner continues to dig deeper to find the origins and meani...

A meta-analysis of green tea's impact on metabolism and weight-loss, undertaken by the Cochrane trust, finds no statistically significant correlation between drinking green tea and losing weight. (mor...

The Senate's 6,700 page, $40M report on the CIA's participation in torture has apparently never been read by a single member of the Executive Branch of the US Government, because the Department of Jus...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, signed, sketched and delivered here.Show ...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE. You can get both EMU Club Adventures books, signed, sketched and delivered here.Show ...

House Bill HR1737 will create penalties for auto-lenders who substantially overcharge black and latino customers through gouging on dealer markups. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SN97v4Q6kEmily writes, "64oz Games is working once again to improve Braille accessibility in popular board games, this time in tabletop RPGs. This kickstarter will al...

Respected UK tech elder statesman and journalist Rupert Goodwins blasts the UK government's plan to impose secret gag-orders on researchers who discover government-inserted security flaws in widely us...

A panel of academic booksellers, librarians, and publishers asked the public to vote on which academic book from a list of 20 is "the most influential." Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" (18...

From KQED Science: Surface tension is the property of any liquid that describes how its particles stick together. In the case of water, surface tension is especially strong, enough to form a kind of...

Wonkblog explains "why designers cant stop reinventing the subway map." It's an abstraction problem generally solved by ...

The Fuse Chicken Titan Lightning Cable is an MFI certified cord sheathed in steel conduit. The connectors are sealed over the cable to reduce the possibility of damage at the ends. The Titan has a lif...

https://youtu.be/I906a5msynw?list=UUeecKs0KQxT7ejAHkoQ4wUwRhizome takes a look at the world of Black Midi, compositions with so many notes that to print them as musical notation would result simply in...

This delightful-looking deck of cards, featuring classic computers, is yours for $15 from the already-successful Kickstarter campaign.The selection is good and each card has the right stats: CPU model...

Astronomers have spied a cold world three times as distant from the Sun as Pluto. (more…)...

The legendary painter and educator has inspired a placeholder text generator based upon his calm yet encouraging dialogue. Friendlier than the classic lorem ipsum, it should provide all the happy litt...

The subreddit r/CucumbersScaringCats is dedicated entirely to the proposition that cats are scared of cucumbers, and to providing video evidence in support of that proposition. (more…)...

Extensive 12-Week Online Program to Learn to Code. Love Your Job, Work Flexible Hours, & Get a Raise.Become a job-ready developer by building a portfolio of real-world apps and interacting 1-on-1 ...

Mark says:What would happen if you mixed a math education tutoring site with a late night 900 number?Well, someone did, and it might end up being one of the strangest new startups out of Cambridge. ...

She is reading a copy of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.Jacket copy:Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century ...

We've all encountered what people today call Black Memorabilia a Mammy cookie jar, a racist postcard but have you ever wondered where these depictions came from, and why they are so common? In her l...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Diary keeper Greg Heffley cant just endure middle school in peace. His helicopter mom is working on a petition to get people to stop using electronics for 48 ho...

Following up on the bizarre coordinated blocks against reporters by some protesting at the University of Missouri yesterday, a statement from David Kurpius, dean of the Missouri School of Journalism: ...

The less said about The Room 3 before you play it the better: and yet I will say things now. The award-winning puzzle series from Fireproof Games has returned for its third outing, and it's the best o...

Rapper and proud pothead Snoop Dogg is launching a line of cannabis products, called Leafs By Snoop. "It's a true blessing that I can share the products I love so much with y'all today," Mr. Dogg said...

UK retailer Tesco is hiring "Christmas Light Untanglers" so they can provide this new service at their stories. Ideal candidates are "able to untangle 3 metres of Christmas lights in under three minut...

Cambridge University today said that Stephen Hawking is cancelling several public appearances because of ill health. (more…)...

Last week's Senate Commerce Committee hearings invited testimony on the Consumer Review Freedom Act, which would ban the increasingly widespread practice of inserting "non-disparagement" clauses in co...

Vizio made news last April when it pushed out a firmware update that turned on all its' sets spyware features out of the box. Since then, it's only gotten worse. (more…)...

Di-Andre Caprice Davis is an artist from Kingston, Jamaica who creates some really wonderful animated GIF art.In my work, I combined a passion for digital aesthetic with furthering the exposure and un...

The creator of the groundbreaking, snarf-inducing TV show (which featured robot-puppets adding a snarky running commentary to some of the worst movies ever made, ever) is bringing it back in its origi...

Starting with the Agat, a 1984 Apple ][+ clone, moving through several other mass-market and semi-mass-market models, including the gorgeously named Robotron, which was mostly produced in the GDR, and...

https://youtu.be/f2hUKOchIL8Phoenix, who is in kindergarten, replaces a wheel bearing on his daddy's 2001 Corolla.I would trust this 5 year old boy with my car more than I'd trust any auto mechanic I'...

Jesse Jane McParland, age 9, showed her stuff at the Junior World Kickboxing Championships. If the producers of the Walking Dead don't give her a starring role in Season 7, they are crazy....

Mark of Future Forms takes gorgeous photos of his collection of "space-age" electronics from the 1960s to the 1980s, many of which are for sale or rental. You can search by color, brand, or category. ...

Zain Khalid pens the perfect McSweeney's humor-short: self-reflexive (snark, indeed!), demographically loaded, and ha-ha-only-serious. (more…)...

When Make: Electronics was published about five years ago, it was widely hailed as the greatest book about learning electronics ever written. With beautiful photos, easy-to-read schematics, clear, jar...

An Australian taxi lobby, in an effort to demonstrate why taxis are more awesome than Uber, asked people to tweet their taxi stories. People responded with complaints about surly, incompetent, and cro...

Austrian artist Carl Kahler's 1893 cat painting "My Wife's Lovers," thought to be the world's largest painting of cats, sold at a Sotheby's auction for $826,000. The cats in the painting belonged to S...

I've never understood the need for an advent calendar, as if children needed help remembering Christmas. As my daughter celebrates the gift giving traditions of several cultures, however, I'm left loo...

Allen Touissant, a deeply influential New Orleans rhythm and blues musician and producer, has died. He was 77. Touissant suffered a heart attack shortly after a performance in Madrid, Spain. Touissant...

In psychology they call thinking that you see the world as it truly is, free from bias or the limitations of your senses, naive realism.According to our guest in this episode, famed psychologist Lee R...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4oA video of a protest at the University of Missouri shows a professor of mass media blocking a student reporter from reporting.Tim Tai, a student photographer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4oA video of a protest at the University of Missouri shows a professor of mass media blocking a student reporter from reporting. (more…)...

Fan footage of Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday (1994) in which she appeared as "Kathie Lee Kathie." I hope she put $5 in the swear jar as Elmo demanded....

Did you hear about the International Hole of Pancakes, the massive drainage structure collapse that swallowed a at least a dozen cars in an IHOP parking lot in Meridian, MS just a few days after the...

Two Louisiana cops who killed a 6-year-old boy have been charged with murder after bodycam footage showed that his father had his hands up when they opened fire.Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenh...

Wired recommends the Mrice E300 earbuds, a cheapie ($17-25) option that outperforms many headphones that cost over $1000 (!). (more…)...

If you have your plane fixed in the USA, the FAA requires that your maintenance crew be proficient English (the language of aviation manuals), and that you admit FAA spot-inspectors at any time. But s...

Wonderland is a wonderful idea for a game. It's an old-timey audio drama that lets you solve a puzzle at the and of each chapter—and if you can't, you can walk with your phone to get clues. (m...

Tensorflow, a sophisticated machine learning program that underpins Google Translate, speech recognition, image recognition and many other critical Google services, is now available under an Apache li...

Under the UK's new Snoopers Charter (AKA the Investigatory Powers Bill), the Secretary of State will be able to order companies to introduce security vulnerabilities into their software ("backdoors") ...

How long would you survive in a zombie apocalypse? Residents of the United Kingdom can find out using this location-based survival calculator. (more…)...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...

Jeb Bush, a Republican candidate for the nation's highest office, confirmed Monday that if given the opportunity, he would kill Adolf Hitler as a baby.Hell yeah, I would! the former Florida governor t...

Koster's just released his first poetry collection, Sunday Poems, which is illustrated with his lovely line drawings. He's picked out four poems for your delectation, and written us a few words on the...

Mike Boyd is familiar with Gladwell's 10,000, that being the approximate number of hours of practice supposedly required to master something. He wondered how long it would take him to learn to kickf...

Metafont makes it easy to create your own typeface: all you have to do is move sliders that alter the geometry until you've got the results you want. Then click "download," and you have your font!meta...

The hottest hair style for gentlemen is now yours without the risk of traction alopecia. Groupon's clip-on manbun is only $9.99, and comes in blonde and brunette."How to Wear It:1. Comb your hair back...

You'd be forgiven for thinking the videocassette format long-dead, but it turns out that Betamax is still around. Sony is finally going to withdraw tapes from sale, bringing a 40-year story to an end....

Make sure your personal data and Internet activity are never exposed with the extremely reliable VPNtrusted by over a million users. Whether youre looking to beat geo-restrictions to binge-watch your ...

Photographic proof that dogs are angels. Not shopped, we can tell by the pixels.HT: d0gbl0g.dog...

Wolf puppies hunting for mice. Polar Park 2014. (more…)...

Bran Muir's wonderful, chilling animated GIF work is highlighted in a post over at VICE's The Creators Project. Muir's process starts like that of any collage artist as he cuts up old NatGeo and LIFE ...

Although we hoped it wouldn't happen, we knew that being pick-pocketed on our Trip Around the World was a very real possibility. We tried to always be careful, especially in crowded places, but we jus...

I believe in humanity. I believe that Black people can be free in America. I believe the world can see peace.— JB. (@_JonathanButler) July 26, 2015Hours after a wave of student and faculty prote...

An underground drain failed in Meridian, Mississippi, causing an IHOP parking lot to collapse. Patrons were given extra blueberry syrup as a consolation. (Not really.)...

Asma Jama was enjoying a meal at an Applebee's restaurant in Coon Rapids, Minnesota when a diner sitting at another table became incensed that Jama was speaking Swahili. To punish Jama for not speakin...

@TheManeater "we must love and support one another." pic.twitter.com/iPNqpYSj0a— Ally Paige Sherwin (@ally_sherwin) November 9, 2015Former @UMPrez Tim Wolfe immediately after resigning...

You're supposed to be a bird in Trills, a two-player jousting game by Crudepixel, but for some reason when you collide with another bird, it sounds like two swords clashing. Maybe birds can also be sw...

After years of public outrage, the disturbing expos Black Fish and fading business fortunes, SeaWorld is to end its use of killer whales in shows in San Diego.But new California regulations also playe...

Changing technology made it a legend, then gentrification killed it. But Chinatown Fair, Manhattan's legendary video arcade, is open to players again in a new location. The Lost Arcade is a forthcom...

United States District Judge Richard Leon has affirmed his 2013 ruling and has ordered the NSA to stop collecting phone records belonging to J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., an...

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge came up with a convenient way to reject a proposed amendment to the state constitution to legalize cannabis: incorrect mixed singular and plural nouns, adject...

Bob Coons writes, "Jim Balsillie, one of the founders of RIM, has made the headlines in Canada by stating that signing the TPP could be "the worst public policy decision in the country's history." (...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Animal Upon Animal is a dice-rolling and stacking game where you take 7 animals and roll a die that determines how you take your turn and how you need to stack those pieces...

When the kaleidoscope was invented in 1816, it triggered a mania in England. People who couldn't afford their own would pay an enterprising street hustler a penny for a glimpse into the phantasmagoric...

Pastor Kevin Swanson has some unusual tips for parents who attended his "National Religious Liberties Conference." After he interviewed fellow Tea Party darlings Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal, he w...

The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has banned winemaker Premier Estates' "Taste the Bush" advertisement, created by agency Saatchi Masius. According to the government agency, the phrase is und...

Neurosurgeon Phil Kennedy, a pioneer in brain-machine interfaces that enable "locked-in" patients to control computers with their minds, is trying to build a system that will translate imagined speech...

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has announced legislation that will force ISPs to preserve the records of all of your online interactions and give them up to practically anyone in government, with littl...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a preview of consensual tentacle sex game Consentacle and a new documentary series on women in games. (more…)...

For decades, engineer Nelson Tyler has kept the jetpack dream alive, most recently with the company Jetpack Aviation. Above, video of the company's CEO David Mayman flying the latest model, the JB-9...

PrankvsPrank turned a remote-controlled car into the infamous pizza-loving rat to terrorize unwitting passers-by. How-To video below:https://youtu.be/HLcSDFtHOGA...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "When MuckRock stumbled on I Write Like - a service that lets you see which famous author a given piece of writing resembles - they immediately knew what it was destined ...

The first time we ever see the power of the "light side" of the Force is to psychically dominate a security guard. The first time we see a lightsaber in use, it's to maim someone in a bar brawl. It's ...

For our vacation this year, my wife Gina and I took a driving tour of the southern states. The plan was to eat as much BBQ as possible and my fingertips still smell of smoky sauces. We hung out in Me...

In a characteristically insightful essay, Clay Shirky discusses the largely invisible rise of online education and dissects the causes of that invisibility: namely that the American higher education s...

Lisa Rein writes, "Chelsea Manning prepared a statement for this year's "Aaron Swartz Day Celebration of Hackers and Whistleblowers That Make The World A Better Place" that took place at the Internet ...

UK photographer Peter Stewart's collection Stacked is a series of photos of Hong Kong's fabulous high-rises, shot from ground level, looking straight up into the sky. (more…)...

Gunnar Hansen who Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's iconic splatterpunk film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) has died at age 68. Inspired by serial killer Ed Gein, Leatherface work a mask of human skin....

So smooth, so attractiveit doesnt get much better than the Apple USB wall plug. NomadPlus acknowledges the presence of true greatnessit doesnt replace your charger, it makes it better. Slip it inside ...

In another high-profile failure of a successfully-crowdfunded gadget, it turns out that TechJect's robot dragonflies won't be flying their way to pledgers' pockets any time soon. (more…)...

Guillotines and numbing satire figure strongly in an archive of images from the French Revolution, made available by Stanford University and the Bibliothque nationale de FranceAbout 14,000 high-resolu...

The eight-member band is named Lovelyz and formed in 2014, according to Wikipedia....

Dell's "business class" Chromebook is almost perfect, writes Wired's Scott Gilbertson. The release of this 13-inch model marks a shift from the low-end zone most ChromeOS laptops occupy, to the middle...

After architectural peculiarities were noted in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an infra-red scan suggests that a hidden chamber indeed lies behind a decorated wall. Discovery reports that Cairo Univers...

The politics escape me, but I'm fascinated by the US Debt Clock, a website covered in real-time tickers and counters purporting to show all of the unpleasant statistics piling up in America.They also ...

The politics escape me, but I'm fascinated by the US Debt Clock, a website covered in real-time tickers and counters purporting to show all of the unpleasant statistics piling up in America.They also ...

After architectural peculiarities were noted in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an infra-red scan suggests that a hidden chamber indeed lies behind a decorated wall. Discovery reports that Cairo Univers...

Welcome to the International Hole of Pancakes: a sinkhole that swallowed 15 vehicles at a diner in Meridian, Miss., leaving them submerged in mud and sending otherwise unhurt locals scrambling.Emergen...

The executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police has upped the ante in the ongoing feud with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who recently said some deaths in police custody were murders. "Tarantin...

Apple store workers' class-action lawsuit, complaining of "demeaning" security searches conducted off the clock, was defeated this weekend by the company. (more…)...

The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed ov...

The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed ov...

Pagefair is an ad-blocking circumvention tool that publishers can use to track readers who've taken technological countermeasures to protect their privacy. The company has sold its service to many pub...

The lede and various details in The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares, an article at the New York Times, are rewritten automatically based upon the reader's location.It's not ov...

Digital commissioner Gnther Oettinger (CDU EPP) is joining with European Parliament president Martin Schulz (SPD S&D) in pressing the European Commission to create a copyright interest in links, mea...

Between 1913 and 1920, many Americans sent their children around the country by mail. Provided your child weighed less than 50 lbs, you could simply affix stamps to their clothing and send them off wi...

What with social media being a thing now, it's probably time to start give California a heads up when you're going to fire a giant rocket over it.A Navy spokesman told the San Diego Union-Tribune th...

Gus writes, "November 2-6 was Media Literacy Week, that great traditional festival of questioning everything we read and talking back to the TV. OK, so it's only ten years old... and this is the fir...

Dumb Cuneiform aptly labels the nature of its work lest anyone be under any illusions here. Here's how it works:Just send us a tweet or text (use the text field in the order form)Well carefully transl...

Jump into a reliable and flourishing career with a stamp of approval from CompTIA, the highly-acclaimed IT industry association. This five-part training begins by prepping you for the CompTIA A+ exam,...

Christian Kirchesch put together a cracking set of logos as used by musicians, pirates, demo writers and other e'erdowells of the Commodore Amiga's hardcore coding scene.Originally this was supposed t...

Amazon has a great deal on adjustable and reusable Velcro ties. The straps can be permanently looped around a cord or cable so it won't get lost. A pack of 100 costs $5 if you're a Prime member (try A...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Dogs get all the credit when it comes to training. Yes, they can fetch bones, sit on command, bark for food, play ball, walk on two legs, roll over, play dead, ...

The BBC casts an eye over countries that do not existnot just the odd slivers of land with tentative claims on micronationhood, but the superimposed quasi-countries that cohere because of ethnicity, p...

A leaked Comcast memo discloses that the company's consumer data caps have nothing to do with network congestion, contrary to its public claims.The internet service provider has often complained (such...

The manual for Atari's classic game (posted to flickr by Brian Bennett exactly ten years ago) is not a masterpiece of design. But it is beautiful, in its way, and I strongly approve of that particular...

200 years of speeches made in the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament have been made available to download by Glasgow University. If you're interested in the mocking, backstabbing, occasionally-exulted langua...

Election Betting Odds tallies not polls but gambling odds, to figure out who people think will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Democrat Hillary Clinton is the predictable favorite, but intere...

Before you sigh and flutter your Eyelids of Good Taste, know ye that it is directed by Duncan Jones of Moon and Source Code fame. Expect it to be a bit weirder than the average CGI feast....

Chordi asks you to select an instrument and a chord pattern, then procedurally-generates thirty seconds of obviously procedurally-generated music. It's still "talking dog" territoryso fascinating that...

When UK Home Secretary Theresa May introduced the new, sweeping UK spying bill this week, she reiterated her claim that metadata is like an "itemised phone bill" and does not contain anything harmful....

In The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Childrens Altruism Across the World published this week in Current Biology, academic researchers from the US, Canada, Qatar, Jordan, South Africa,...

Zoe Quinn, sometime Boing Boing contributor and object of pants-wetting apoplexy by Gamergate's jerk-squad, has sold a memoir telling her tale of being targeted for one of the Internet's most grotesqu...

47-year-old Mark Heryer was killed on October 11th when he was run over by a 38-Geary bus. The SFPD concluded, without investigation, that Heryer's death was his own fault. The city will not release ...

Those big, splashy shows of gratitude to America's soldiers at halftime? They're the best patriotism the taxpayers' money can buy. (more…)...

Unlock a world of career opportunity by mastering the latest and greatest Apple platform, iOS 9. With hours of coding instruction and a library of pre-built app templates, you'll be turning out amazin...

The FCC has rejected Consumer Watchdog's petition to force Internet companies like "Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn") to honor the "Do Not Track" flag that browsers can send ...

It's real and it does exactly what it says it will: send Dumb Cuneiform a tweet or an SMS message and they'll transliterate it into ancient Persian cuneiform, stamp it into a clay tablet and mail it t...

One of the most controversial aspects of the secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership is its inclusion of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) -- a procedure that allows a corporation to sue...

In 1919, a 16-year old LA Times office boy named Kenneth Taylor was given a back-page spread to show off his typewriter portraits of film stars; Taylor's work then spread to Photoplay, and a new mediu...

Mur Lafferty writes, "Mothership Zeta is the first ezine project to come out of Escape Artists (publisher of podcast magazines Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Podcastle). We are an ebook-only zine that foc...

New first look images from Alice Through The Looking Glass were released today by Disney. (more…)...

https://vimeo.com/144773963You used to call me on my cell phone. Late night when you need my cat food. (more…)...

In the past few days there have been a flurry of stories about the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai peninsula, which investigators reportedly think may have been caused by a bomb. Notably, anon...

Log in to Facebook, create a post, and type in Tsu.co. Facebook will censor the link on all its platforms. That means facebook.com, as well as Messenger, Instagram, and the Facebook apps for iOS and A...

This heavy duty grinder is a must for anyone who purchases culinary herbs as buds. It has a pollen screen to capture all the cumin pollen that falls through it when grinding cumin buds. It also has a ...

Troy Little created a graphic novel version of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo memoir, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and he is keeping a comic book diary of his book tour. Here are a couple of pages.Here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ04LKB9dxYMeet the Anonycop!A former Philadelphia police captain, Ray Lewis, joined the Million Mask March Thursday in Washington D.C. Donning the Anonymous mask, Lewi...

Evidently the costs of changing from a racially themed high school team name and mascot to one less charged is high. Folks have to survey the community, and poll the public to determine what new symbo...

The cost of changing from a racist high school team name and mascot to one that isn't can be high. (more…)...

The Woodcreek Faction removed the worst bits from the last on-stage smackdown, leaving the candidates at their most charming....

A study found that it's now the norm for smartphone apps to "spy" on their users, reporting what they do on their devices while the software is running. The research, conducted by MIT, Carnegie-Mellon...

Vigilante superhero tales tend to revolve around seeking justice outside of a failed system, and the idea that one man or woman can cause real change within that system by punching people. In short, t...

Stormchaser/photographer Nick Moir posted the gorgeous video clip below of a shelf cloud off Sydney, Australia. The whole shot is quite surreal, as if the cloud background is were digitally added late...

https://youtu.be/x9n9dt2fKeEThis is wonderful. When Stoney Emshwiller was 18 years old, he filmed himself interviewing his older self. Thirty-eight years later a 56-year-old Stoney completed the inter...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a very long, legalistic proposed treaty full of paid-for corporate graft. The Washington Post has made it easy to search, lest its inaccessibility dissuade scrutiny (w...

Chuck Rosenberg, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is either woefully ignorant, protective of his administration's reckless mission, or both. "What really bothers me is the notion that mari...

The Staten Island Advance reports that Brandon Williams, 13, was eating his lunch at Barnes Intermediate School on Oct. 28 when he saw that his classmate Jessica Pellegrino was choking on a piece of ...

An 85-year-old woman in Vienna shredded more than $1 million in cash before dying just to zing her relatives. Amazingly, the National Bank of Austria (OeNB) will replace all the cash."If the heirs can...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Ive never used a solar cooker, so I didnt know what to expect when I made a meal with one. The GoSun is a 3.5 pound, portable, folding solar stove/oven that uses reflective...

Mailvelope is a browser extension that is described as the easiest way for mere mortals to send PGP-encrypted messages. Researchers at Brigham Young University brought in a group of people unfamiliar ...

In a decision that environmental activists see as a hard-won victory, President Obama today announced he is rejecting the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The new...

The dynamic hypercreative duo of Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock have a huge show of new paintings opening tonight (Friday 11/6) at San Francisco's 111 Minna Gallery. The reception starts at 5pm with ...

American Apparel founder Dov Charney still lives in an 11,000 square foott mansion in Los Angeles, but he says he is so broke he can't even afford a lawyer and has to couch surf when he goes to New Yo...

"I reckon if Thom Yorke fucking shit into a light bulb and started blowing it like an empty beer bottle itd probably get 9 out of 10 in fucking Mojo," Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher told Esquire UK. "I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRA4sIjxa8The Protopiper (white paper [PDF]) is a modified tape-gun that extrudes regular, precise lengths of hollow tubing made from packing tape, with which you ca...

In his autobiography Ben Carson wrote, "I was offered a full scholarship to West Point." But West Point says he's lying. "When presented with this evidence," reports Politico, "Carsons campaign conced...

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The US spent five years locking its trading partners in smoke-filled rooms with its most rapacious corporate lobbyists, writing a secret trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all the w...

Courtesy of Gawker comes a look at "the shitty memes of the KKK," which might be funny were it not the output of the 21st-century vanguard of a violent white supremacist hate group.The semiotics ricoc...

It seems obvious that the presidential candidate's stories of youthful violence are fables, but why? It's not just because he keeps changing the events to account for inconsistencies and incredibiliti...

Are you planning on taking a vacation trip to the Moon? If so, you'll want to create a commemorative photo album. The moon is a pretty desolate place and the truth is, you just dont have a whole lot t...

As body image, sex, relationships and gender issues come to the fore, blogs and news sites are quitting stock photo providers such as Getty. The problem: most of the material there touching upon these...

NYMag's Max Read considers whether or not it is a good idea to preemptively block anyone you see with an anime avatar, that having become a signifier for a particular type of angry, prolix adolescent....

Even a fear of flying shouldnt prevent you from soaring to great heights! Fly up, down, and every way in between with the Striker Spy Drone. Encased in a hardy plastic shell, yet still light enough to...

As we pick through the secret, 2,000-page treaty, we're learning an awful lot of awfulness, but this one is particularly terrible. (more…)...

EFF, the Organization for Transformative Works, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund have filed a brief [PDF] in a Supreme Court case over "publicity rights" -- the right of famous people to veto the...

Coaxed by the Copyright Page: An Erotic Short Story is Leonard Delaney's latest erotic short story, part four in the Digital Desires series, which includes Taken by the Tetris Blocks, Conquered by Cli...

Jesse writes, "Like you, I've been following the TPP news with much trepidation. My partner is a librarian-archivist, so I'm keenly away of how difficult copyright law can make the job of the average ...

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Get inside Google, Twitter, Tastemade and 80+ of LA's most inspirational companies during NewCo Los Angeles. NewCo turns business conferences inside out. Instead of gathering in boring ballrooms, NewC...

U.S. Presidential candidate Ben Carson sure is one wacky guy. (more…)...

The first official trailer for The Hateful Eight hit the internets today. The new Quentin Tarantino film stars Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, and Bruce Dern.See it ...

https://youtu.be/wWeE0OjjewoNathan Chung's dog really hates it when he blows raspberries. (more…)...

Doctors Without Borders released an internal report today that claims a U.S. warplane shot at people who were trying to escape the international medical aid group's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, a...

Comic Book Resources broke the sad news today that the great car customizer George Barris, who created the Batmobile for the 1966 "Batman" TV series, has passed away. Barris died early this morning a...

Summer 1989Natalie wore a red-and-white checked dress with strawberry buttons, and she could feel the ends of her hair brush her chin. She held on to Mommys purse with one hand as Mommy pushed the str...

My favorite part of MAKE has always been the how-to projects, and this second volume of the Best of MAKE contains complete instructions for 65 projects ranging from a sous vide cooker, to a beginners ...

https://youtu.be/PXHclOZ0pzQHere's video of 7-year-old Suzuki School of Newton cellist Ryan anticipating The Force Awakens, says Ryan's dad....

NOAA just released this awesome NASA image of a volcanic eruption in action. (more…)...

A round of synchronized applause for Vlad Gapanovich, Maxim Golovchenko, and Evgeniy Pahalovich! I haven't seen a multi-person juggling routine this captivating since The Flying Karamazov Brothers....

See more photos at Wink Fun. Confession time: Ive never read Moby Dick. Ive meant to. Ive tried to. Ive even made significant headway. But I have yet to actually finish the novel. You might say that c...

In the charming platform game Crowtel, you're a crow running a seedy hotel, and you're not very good at it. Well, really you're just lazy—not living up to your potential, as your crow teachers d...

Strata-East Records was a pioneering record label founded in 1971 that went deeper down the post-bop, spiritual jazz path pioneered by John Coltrane's iconic work "A Love Supreme." Strata-East was a r...

"Earlier this year, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead played sold-out 'Fare Thee Well' concerts in Santa Clara and Chicago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of their band," sa...

"Alice Through the Looking Glass" is director James Bobin's sequel to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carte, Alan Rickman, Stephe...

According to this 1998 commencement address Ben Carson gave at Andrews University, the "flagship educational institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church," he says that the "scientists" who claim...

This video, which was released last year, was produced by the city of Amsterdam to warn tourists that heroin was being sold by street dealers as cocaine. The city set up signs and offered inexpensiv...

He speaks for himself. A second spot employs a narrator, promising that Mexico will pay for the wall America will build.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=561CdWwpTeMI had a dream last night that there...

https://youtu.be/-9OjD-ge7-E"Progress to 100" doesn't sound like the most exciting name for a game, but this clean, two-toned series of iOS puzzles is a real crowd pleaser. It might offer you just a s...

big_mac_heart_attack posted this gorgeous example of a "fallstreak hole" with a rainbow in a cloud formation over eastern Victoria, Australia. They are rare enough that some people think they are evid...

https://youtu.be/Km1p2-SB-WE?t=1m24sHere's a fellow who happens to have a jet engine strapped to his truck and an Elmo doll. He didn't have much choice in what he did next.[via]...

Hey, the second book in my kids' book series is out today! It's Ghostly Thief of Time: The EMU Club Adventures, Book Two.In this thrilling installment, the kids stop arguing about who is the leader of...

Hey, the second book in my kids' book series is out today! It's Ghostly Thief of Time: The EMU Club Adventures, Book Two.In this thrilling installment, the kids stop arguing about who is the leader of...

Kill Screen is one of my favorite game magazines, unafraid of going deep into the murky waters around the mainstream of gaming culture. They're launching a revamp on Kickstarter, with a plan to focus ...

There's a reason that 8 runs of Dan and Daves Smoke and Mirrors decks have been produced. They're amazingly elegant and people just want to get their hands on them. They remind me of girls I dated in ...

Passive resistance in a nutshell (or an occupied dogfort.)...

A nice reminder of just how utterly daft they are!P.S. All reviews of new Bond movies are really reviews of old Bond movies....

Paul Ford mounts a defense of the Internets absence of meaningThe most meaningful experiences I have, the experiences that give me the greatest insight into the operation of culture over timesomething...

Prada, Armani, Rolex Paul Bloom mediates between the belief that it's OK to like nice things and the belief that empty acts of consumption signal attractive traits: the lure of luxury.I dont think any...

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Courtesy of governments around the world, from the White House to New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With 30 chapters and more than 2000 pages, it'll be a long weekend read. Quick highlights d...

When the climate-change denier/evil billionaire bought National Geographic, National Geographic Society CEO Greg Knell promised that "there wont be an [editorial] turn in a direction that is different...

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A Colombian HIV-positive man who'd gone off his meds died when a tapeworm in his body developed cancer and spread tumors to his lungs. It's the first known case of a person dying of a disease that had...

Jumpstart a steady and high-paying career in front-end development! This bundle will teach you the skills you need to score that essential first job--and it will do so right from your computer screen....

The US Patent and Trademark Office and the Washington Redskins are embroiled in a fight over whether the Redskins name is too offensive to qualify as a trademark. The Redskins have tried various tacks...

SDR Traveller caters to people who, for one reason or another, need to haul huge amounts of cash money through dangerous territory. The bags are made from a super strong, super light synthetic materia...

The latest Humble Books Bundle features more than 11 Peanuts collections and storybooks, including "Waiting for the Great Pumpkin," "Snoopy vs the Red Baron," "Snoopy's Thanksgiving," "The Complete Pe...

In 1913, George Julius installed a building-sized, all mechanical odds-calculating computer at Auckland, NZ's Ellerslie racetrack, powered by huge iron weights that slowly pulled down bike chains over...

Police in Mexico say they found 84 pounds (38 one-kilogram packets) of cocaine inside the luggage of a guy who claimed to be a cancer patient, as he boarded a Learjet air ambulance from Tijuana to New...

Mexico's supreme court today ruled that some parts of the countrys health law are not valid, and that growing, possessing, or using marijuana for recreational purposes is perfectly legal under existi...

Regina, or 1995Regi, as she calls herself on Instagram, is a Polish girl who likes selfies, science fiction, and Drake. She's also the fictional creation of artist Katarzyna Witerscheim, who dreamed R...

https://youtu.be/h8NAyLjVzwANic De Houwer is from Belgium, and it looks like he can sound like just about anybody. Amazing!...

One attack took place at the University of California Merced campus: 5 stabbed, suspect commits suicide by cop. Another attack in San Diego, in a mixed residential and business area north of the city ...

Weighty topics fill this weeks fact-lite tabloids, dedicated to bringing you a healthier, happier life - unless youre a celebrity.Angelina Jolie weighs only 83 lbs and faces a new cancer battle, the...

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer th...

JavaScript for Kids is for kids, but also for adults who don't know anything about coding and want to learn. The author, Nick Morgan, is a front-end programmer at Twitter, and he does a great job of c...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Being a fan of wordless graphic novels like Shaun Tans The Arrival and Thomas Otts The Number, I was eager to experience Chinese artist Daishu Mas Leaf. Like th...

Benjamin Golden (32) of Costa Mesa, California lost his job as a marketing executive for Taco Bell after he was recorded on video violently assaulting his Uber driver. A dashcam video shows a frustr...

Of course you remember the 5th of November! Friday night, around 6pm, the folks from the Pelican Inn will start their fire. Join our former colonist oppressors as they descend on Muir Beach to burn a ...

Of course you remember the 5th of November! Thursday night, around 6pm, the folks from the Pelican Inn will start their fire. Join our former colonist oppressors as they descend on Muir Beach to burn ...

If you have $650,000 you can buy a nice one-car spot at Boston's Brimmer Street Garage. The garage is heated and has valet service. When the garage opened in 1979, spots sold for $7,900. Last month, a...

https://youtu.be/FI2Gu1ZFmAkMickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny's long-lost, long-eared ancestor has been discovered in the National archive of the British Film Institute. (more…)...

I don't know anything about this giant wave that crashed over a barrier. If you do, please post about it in the comments....

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The classic Mac screensaver Flying Toasters (from the "After Dark" suite) is yours to enjoy again, complete with Toast Controls and optional monochrome. And, thanks to the glory of modern web technolo...

"Cavern" by groove based punk masters Liquid Liquid served as backing track for Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's "White Lines."There is also an animated video, but the sound quality was meh enough ...

These are some of the best examples of adult artists' re-imagining of kids' monster drawing. Behance has a large gallery of Monster Project art.[caption id="attachment_432324" align="alignnone" width=...

onesecond.designly.com visualizes one second on the internet. A lot happens in designer Steve Lewis's depiction of the digital world, and most of it is on Facebook and Google properties, as you would ...

@RoboRosewater is a twitter account that posts, once a day, a Magic: The Gathering card generated by a recurrent neural network. [via Ditto]This is an implementation of the science described by Vice's...

According to a survey by Pew Research, 40 percent of the adults report that their home contains a videogame console: 42 percent of women and 37 percent of men. The survey confirms the general consensu...

The "pot-laced" candy that a man from Ohio complained about was tested by police and had no traces of drugs. The razor blade in a Hershey bar had been placed there by the kid who found it. The needle ...

One day, rich people will visit these worlds! This is the work of Martin Vargic: buy prints at his site.P.S. latest doppler inferences indicate that planets depicted with of earthlike oceans and atmos...

TSA screeners' ability to detect weapons in luggage is "pitiful," according to classified reports on the security administration's ongoing story of failure and fear.We know about them because lawmaker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkoCWUJt10wHave you ever wondered why the riveted metal tab that holds the end hook on a tape measure has slop in it? It's not because it was manufactured by a shoddy c...

The case at hand is Instagram, where gentlemen often realize too late that their friends and family know when they like pictures of scantily-clad barely-legals.I'd never reached the level of boredom, ...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE for exclusive, advance access to comics and more stuff. HEY, the second b...

Immerse yourself in the virtual environment of your dreams with just your smartphone and the impressive, high-quality Homido Virtual Reality Headset. This futuristic gadget transforms videos and games...

Mozilla has shipped a new version of Firefox whose private mode also blocks tracking beacons for ad networks, which will make private Web usage much harder to track. (more…)...

Google bans ads by predatory lenders who promise foreclosure prevention and high-rate short-term loans, but they do allow payday loan ads; when you search for "need rent money fast," the predatory len...

As Mark Andreessen noted, software is eating the world because once it's developed, it scales to infinity. That means that once a worker's co-op of drivers clones Uber's platform in free/open code, dr...

The Fancy's $95 unisex, USB-chargeable light-up LED sneakers glow in seven colors and last 8-10 hours per charge. (more…)...

For that fully functional carbohydrate station: $40 from Thinkgeek (produces two-sided, 8" diameter waffles). It's waffley good!...

The Koch brothers have done a lot to rehabilitate their reputation as Immortan Joe climate-destroyer/plutocrats by talking about criminal justice reform, a cause dear to the hearts of the libertaria...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Imprisoned Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning has written a groundbreaking bill to reform the U.S. government's unpopular mass surveillance programs, start...

There's even a dancing baby! It's based on a mobile installation for hire that prompts your guests to turn themselves into loops that they can then drag around on a virtual stage. (more…)...

A police officer in Arkansas sparked a manhunt and investigation when he claimed he'd been shot during a traffic stop by a Hispanic man in his 30s. Turns out that was total bullshit. David Houser, 50,...

The Motion Picture Association of America today announced that it had effectively shut down the popular Popcorn Time fork and movie-sharing torrent destination YTS after court orders in Canada and New...

Activision Blizzard announced Monday evening that it plans to buy King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, for about $5.9 billion. It's the third-largest video game industry deal eve...

OpenBCI is an open-source brain computer interface that had a successful Kickstarter a couple of years ago. They are back with a $99 biodata acquisition device and a 3D-printed, brain-sensing headset...

Zoe Quinn knows what it's like to be lied about, harassed and generally made a prop in other people's angry inner lives. But she also knows what it's like to have been one of the internet's useful i...

I'm a fan of DK's "Big Ideas Simply Explained series." I have the Psychology Book and the Philosophy Book. Both books go through the history of the subjects, with lots of well-designed infographics. T...

The space exploration game Sun Dogs comes with a promising description: "Sun Dogs is about exploring our inner solar system, altering your body, and embracing death." After playing, I deem it accurate...

Warning: TITTIES.Nipples, Nazi slogans, and racist slurs against Syrian war refugees have all collided on German Facebook to create the ultimate viral headline, and we at Boing Boing are *so very on i...

If you want to tell a sad, fraught story, does it need to be through a video game? Not always—but Llaura DreamFeel is a creator who has a unique, refreshing grasp on the little spaces that open ...

Germany's Volkswagen is already in a whole heap of global trouble after the car maker was caught cheating on U.S. tests for nitrogen oxide emissions. Then, we learned Dieselgate also involved VW subsi...

Germany's Volkswagen is already in a whole heap of global trouble after the car maker was caught cheating on U.S. tests for nitrogen oxide emissions. Then, we learned Dieselgate also involved VW subsi...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.For much of the 1990s, Mark Hogancamp of Kingston, New York, adhered to a predictable pattern of waking up, going to work, returning home, drinking as much as a...

I thought Robert Crumb's unabridged graphic novel of the Book of Genesis was a herculean effort, but cartoonist R. Sikoryak has tackled an even more arduous task: incorporating the complete, unabridge...

The high-water mark of American culture. "If that's your best, your best won't do."...

You've no doubt seen those street performance artists who wear metallic clothes and makeup and stand in frozen poses. Well, here's a gentleman who is apparently unfamiliar with these performances, bec...

Police departments around the country are establishing "safe exchange zones" at police stations for people who buy and sell stuff on Craigslist to meet in person. From the Washington Post:The practice...

Classic strategy games have long been bested by computers: checkers is a solved puzzle, and the machines long ago surpassed human Chess grandmasters. But thinking meat is still the master when it come...

El Casco began as a firearm company in 1920. By the 1930s, business wasn't booming so they expanded into desk accessories, starting with an elegantly machined handheld stapler. They still make that mo...

The languid, pulsing beauty of Hideki Inaba's retro-style animation is the perfect way to becalm your Tuesday morning. An organic landscape set to the music of BEATSOFREEN's "Slowly Rising," it flow...

At the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, anyone can check out skulls, taxidermy mounts, pelts, and other bits and pieces of dead animals for free. Librarian Celia Rozen says that the ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in orbit keeps a constant vigil on the Sun to help us understand how solar variations impact life on Earth. Launched in 2010, the SDO is part of NASA's Living...

Lahoma mayor Theresa Sharp says he "meant no harm" and that it was merely "four good ol' boys sitting around drinking and things got out of control."After the group headed out into the night, complain...

"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know."(via John Curley)...

Filipino politicians have decried an alleged blackmail scheme by Manila airport security officers, who are said to drop bullets into passengers' luggage and then demand cash payouts to stay out of jai...

A purported expos of KKK members is proving an enormous dud, with the flagship names revealedU.S. Senators and mayors of major citiesobviously no such such thing.The mayor of Lexington, Ky., says he's...

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...

The EPA, the California Air Resources Board and Environment Canada have detected more fraudulent firmware in VW products; this time in 2014-2016 cars from the super-profitable Audii and Porsche lines....

The EPA, the California Air Resources Board and Environment Canada have detected more fraudulent firmware in VW products; this time in 2014-2016 cars from the super-profitable Audii and Porsche lines....

Rebecca MacKinnon, the journalist/activist who wrote the seminal Consent of the Network, has launched a new project called Ranking Digital Rights, part of the New America Foundation's Open Tech Insti...

Christopher has done this sort of thing before. His 2011 debut, Empire State, was weird and glorious and noir, but nowhere near as hard-boiled as Made to Kill -- indeed, very little is.Ray Electromati...

James Bridle's new essay (adapted from a speech at the Through Post-Atomic Eyes event in Toronto last month) draws a connection between the terror of life in the nuclear shadow and the days we live in...

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With instruction from experts in their fields and unlimited access to an enormous library of trainings, youll learn to build and launch amazing websites using open source platforms like WordPress, Joo...

They're hand-screened and $11.09 from Danse Macabre on Etsy. (via Geekymerch)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpajFQECzAkThe Wizard of Northampton in dialog with John Higgs, author of Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, describing HP Lovecraft...

Lana covered her face in adhesive googly-eyes and won trypophobic, slo-mo Hallowe'en. (via JWZ)...

Artist Robert Sikoryak is creating a full-length graphic novel based on the terms and conditions for Apple's Itunes, a novella-length document of eye-watering legalese that you "agree" to without ever...

hBrian writes, "Avant-garde film maker and producer of the highly influential Anthology of American Folk Music series Harry Smith was also an avid collector of folk art. This book compiles some 251 pa...

Awkward Engineer's Model AWK-105 Analog Voltmeter Clock costs $139; it began life as a successful Kickstarter and is now an object of commerce, in off-white or khaki. I love that the "twitchy" analog ...

Jeff Newel says, "Here's a story from Dean Haspiel's Beef With Tomato, a collection of autobiographical comics with some essays that cover Dean's move from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Dean as you may know,...

Angry rich crackpot racist Donald Trump would like you to know that he is very angry, and that's why this is the cover of his new book. Extra points to The Donald for casually insulting every single A...

America boasts a collection of one-of-a-kind policies that send wealth from the poor to the rich: the lack of competition in cable operators gives Americans some of the most expensive Internet anywher...

From Walmart to Hershey to Campbell's Soup, America's biggest retailers and manufacturers are warning their shareholders that flat growth is a fact of life because of "consumer bifurcation," which is ...

https://youtu.be/PwJaa-TFVSgBehold, how the mighty have fallen. (more…)...

Aodhn Rordin the Irish Minister of State for New Communities, Culture and Equality, announced that his government is opening safe injection sites, will introduce a new Misuse of Drugs Bill bill in ea...

You may remember Elly Blue from Pedal Zombies, a kickstarted collection of feminist science fiction about zombies and bicycles. Now she's back with a new crowdfunding drive for a feminist steampunk ...

If you're in Ikebukuro and need a cozy, bookish bed for the night, try Book and Bed, a "designed hostel" that hides coffin-hotel-style bunks among bookshelves lined with handsome volumes and rolling l...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a look inside the cheerful pacifist adventure game Undertale as well as Life is Strange's final chapter.Kill Screen's Frances Chiem argues t...

I've been trying to cut back on the amount of caffeine I drink. I stopped drinking coffee, except on weekends, and have switched to mainly to tea (herbal and black tea). I feel less jittery. Recently ...

Over the course of 12 years, photographer Christopher Herwig traveled more than 18,000 miles around Eastern Europe to photograph the incredible, brutalist, experimental, and downright bizarre bus stop...

This looks like a billboard from the movie Idiocracy, but it is Christchurch, New Zealand, and the property development company that owns it has refused to take it down after receiving complaints that...

The dynamic painter duo of Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock created these fantastic interpretations of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on commission! Kelly and Ferris have a new collaborative exhibit, t...

See more photos at Wink Fun.If youre familiar with Pandemic then youve already got a handle on the basic game play of Pandemic Legacy. Fly around the world, cure diseases and save humanity. The first ...

Andy G made these little Minimoog Synthesizers out of Lego bricks, If 10,000 people approve his proposal on Lego Ideas, Lego might create a kit and sell them.Go retro-analog with these miniaturized ve...

This cute little video takes place in a Gumby-style universe and stars a little red ball named Biisuke who must go through a clever Rube Goldberg obstacle course to save his brothers who are impriso...

Lauren Urasek, 25, "the most popular heterosexual on OKCupid" according to the dating site, has a new book out, Popular: The Ups and Downs of Online Dating from the Most Popular Girl in New York City....

Comcast's Xfinity posted a snide comment on Facebook about Google Fiber's hiccup during a televised pro sports event. Comcast customers used the opportunity to fire back at the much-hated cable provid...

You've likely read about Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero's plan to perform the first human head transplant? There is precedent with non-humans and it ain't pretty. In 1965, Dr. Robert J. White a...

Steve Ross doesn't have the sweet 'fro, but he knows his way around a tube of Van Dyke Brown just like his dad.Here are a few tips and comments Steve offers on this video about painting a lake in th...

Steve Ross doesn't have the sweet 'fro, but he knows his way around a tube of Van Dyke Brown just like his dad.Here are a few tips and comments Steve offers on this video about painting a lake in th...

This very odd handgun is a c.1925 French "Union" automatic pistol with "a 35-round "horseshoe" magazine to provide maximum capacity without overly hampering the gun's handling." (Forgotten Weapons)...

The first episode of Star Trek aired on Sept. 8, 1966. The fifty-year-old franchise has spawned a number of television series, and the last episode (Star Trek: Enterprise) aired 10 years ago. But the ...

https://youtu.be/1Mx97ZuRMrgRobots have a hard time making their way across uneven, unstable terrain. (more…)...

Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released 40 years ago. Here is Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor along with the group's studio engineer Justin Shirley Smith on the history of this feat of rock oper...

In 1959, Texas journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and lived for six weeks as a black man in the segregated South. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe his...

"Haters gonna hate" may just be a dumb meme, but "haters gonna hate, players gonna play" is a copyrighted expression, according to a lawsuit filed against pop singer Taylor Swift.The claimed copyright...

"Here's What It Would Look Like If Disney Princesses Were Tried For War Crimes In The Nuremberg Trials"With this clicktastic headline, Le Yawn mocks the low-effort listicle format whereby Disney Princ...

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Sewing needles and pins were found in chocolate bars given to children in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, reports NBC News. Police believe the tampered-with candy was given out in the area of South Union...

A crack in the Earth almost a kilometer long opened in Wyomingand no-one was around to see it happen. CBS Local reports that the fissure was likely the result of landslides over a period of two weeks....

Here is excellent work by Dave Pollot, who improves thrift-store art with the addition of pop culture icons. [via r/gaming]In another series, he describes how he turned a charming, if slightly uncanny...

Simulations of circumstellar disks, the vast dust-planes left over from stellar formation, suggest that planets ten times larger than Jupiter may lurk in the universe.Being far from the stars they orb...

In a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling described his experiences fighting the "antiseptic, rigid" qualities of censorship.In this clip above, he describes "prec...

Titans top-selling, MFi-certified, tangle-free charging cables now come in a pack, so you can conveniently charge anywhere life may take you. Titans original 3.25 foot cable is wrapped twice in indust...

Jaimee Hills writes, "Gerry Canavan has done a short writeup in an academic publication called The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction on the (amazing) contents of the Octavia E. But...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhS_CjECO90It's when you carry a frame and door to someone else's door, while dressed as someone who's staying at home and giving out candy; you interpose your door b...

@ridetheory created 13 spooky anagrams for "THE HAUNTED MANSION" that spelled out scenes from the ride ("...THAT HEINOUS MAN: END" "HUH? NOT MANSE DETAIN!" "...I THEN UNTO HEADSMAN" and so on!). (more...

Shardcore's latest twitterbot (previously) is @trippingbot, which trains a Character Level Recurrent Neural Network with drug reports from Erowid, where people post running logs of their drug experien...

In September, Google caught Symantec issuing a fake google.com cryptographic certificate that could have been used to seamlessly intercept encrypted Google.com traffic. Symantec is one of the particip...

https://youtu.be/XnRapsAjTUETom Burtonwood creates 3D printed books of dimensional, public domain architectural elements: in 2013, he made Orihon and in 2014 he made Folium, which featured work from A...

The classic fantasy novel The Last Unicorn is finally available in ebook form; there's a deluxe edition that includes the sequel Two Hearts and an interview with Beagle. (more…)...

Whether youre an aspiring da Vinci or just like doodling in the margins of your notebook, youll love taking your skills to your iPhone or iPad. FiftyThrees Pencil rolls up your pick of pens, pencils, ...

(View this graphic as a huge PDF)ABSTRACTIts always about the candy. The Candy Hierarchy is full up with this joy induction measurement, this thing that the co-principle investigators (PIs) Cohen and ...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Crosley makes a line of vintage-inspired portable turntables in great colors and prints. Thanks to variable speed settings, each player can handle your perennial 78s as wel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6MQ56_yyg"Im just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, thats what they pay me to do," said Bill Murray in an interview with T.J. English for Irish Americ...

It's still in beta, but Tor Messenger from the Tor Project has security and privacy baked in by design, and it's the easiest method yet devised to use OTR (Off the Record), the gold standard in secure...

Available in Conical and Round, these designs won my heart with their clever use of retort stands and lab glass; love the fabric-sleeved power-cable too (available in four colors!). The £165; pr...

From the 1980s, an era when I wore copious amount of black eyeliner, and Ministry's Al Jourgensen cultivated a faux English accent, we bring you the underground club anthem "(Every Day Is) Halloween...

1,492 supporters and rising on Change.org: "It would be Harpers style hes not a show-off, hes not about selfies, and being named after a popular airport would certainly help him rehabilitate his imag...

A poster from Scarfolk, the English horror-town that loops through the decade 1970-1980, over and over, warns of the Infant Catcherbots that roam the town's roads, looking for children whose parents u...

Super Punch's annual roundup of printable Hallowe'en masks includes some old faves and some stunning new entries in the race to celebrate a truly incredible inkjet Samhain. (more…)...

The New York Times's slideshow of the Hallowe'en displays of hedge-fund managers and other NYC oligarchs has some pretty impressive haunts, though nothing that justifies the socially corrosive effect ...

What better way to let your true colors shinewhile staying business casualthan with your socks and underwear. Whether you sport boxers or briefs, full-ankle or mid-ankle coverage, bold colors or class...